U+2562 "╢" Box Drawings Vertical Double and Left Single Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2562 "╢" Box Drawings Vertical Double and Left Single is a box drawing glyph used in text based interfaces and ASCII art to construct framed layouts, specifically representing a line that features a double vertical stroke on its right side and a single vertical stroke on its left, which then extends leftward from the line's intersection point with the top and bottom of the box. It belongs to the Box Drawing block in Unicode, designed to enable clear depiction of merged borders and corners in monospaced fonts, such as in console applications or early computer terminals. By combining double and single weight strokes, this character helps visually distinguish nested or priority elements within a complex grid or table structure, ensuring that the hierarchy of lines is apparent to the reader.

General Properties

Code Point U+2562
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Vertical Double and Left Single
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Vertical Double and Left 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 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2562
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002562
C/C++/Java Escape \u2562

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