U+255F "╟" Box Drawings Vertical Double and Right Single Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+255F "╟" Box Drawings Vertical Double and Right Single is a graphic symbol used in text-based user interfaces and plain text tables to form a specific type of junction or connector in box-drawing diagrams. As its name suggests, it combines a double vertical line with a single horizontal line extending to the right, creating a T-shaped intersection where the vertical stem is thicker or doubled compared to the single rightward branch. This character is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block, which standardizes visual characters for creating simple line-art frames, charts, and grids without relying on graphical images. It serves a precise role in layouts that require distinguishing between stronger borders and lighter internal dividers, such as in early computer terminal displays, terminal emulators, command-line tools, or ASCII-like diagrams that mix line weights.

General Properties

Code Point U+255F
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Vertical Double and Right Single
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Vertical Double and Right Single
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 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x255F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000255F
C/C++/Java Escape \u255f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other