U+255E "╞" Box Drawings Vertical Single and Right Double Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
╞
U+255E "╞" Box Drawings Vertical Single and Right Double is a part of the Box Drawing block, used for creating simple text based diagrams and borders in monospaced environments. This specific glyph combines a vertical single line on its left side with a rightward pointing double line, forming a T shaped junction where a single vertical branch meets a double horizontal line extending to the right. It is commonly employed in legacy terminal interfaces, ASCII art, and technical documentation to represent the intersection of different line thicknesses in grid layouts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+255E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Vertical Single and Right Double |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Vertical Single and Right Double |
| 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x255E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000255E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u255e |