U+256A "╪" Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double Unicode Character

U+256A "╪" Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double is used in text-based graphical interfaces to create a junction where a single vertical line crosses a double horizontal line, forming a kind of intersection or "t-junction" on its side. This character belongs to the Box Drawing block of Unicode, which provides a set of symbols for constructing simple diagrams, tables, and borders using a monospaced font. Its design consists of a continuous vertical stroke that passes through a horizontal double line, making it distinct from similar characters like the double vertical and single horizontal counterpart. Programmers and document creators often use these box drawing symbols for retro-style user interfaces, ASCII art, or to represent certain logical or structural connections in technical drawings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+256A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Box Drawings Vertical Single and Horizontal Double
Unicode 1.0 Name	Forms Vertical Single and Horizontal 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 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x256A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000256A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u256a

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