U+2551 "║" Box Drawings Double Vertical Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
║
U+2551 "║" Box Drawings Double Vertical is part of the Box Drawing block, which was designed for creating simple text-based diagrams and forms in monospaced environments. This specific character represents a vertical line composed of two parallel thin strokes, often used to denote a double border or a stronger visual separator between columns or sections in terminal interfaces and code output. It is typically paired with other double-line box drawing characters, such as U+2550 for the horizontal double line, to form complete framed structures without relying on graphical images.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2551 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Double Vertical |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Double Vertical |
| Block | Box Drawing |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ║ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ║ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x95 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2551 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002551 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2551 |