U+256B "╫" Box Drawings Vertical Double and Horizontal Single Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+256B "╫" Box Drawings Vertical Double and Horizontal Single is a box drawing glyph used primarily in text based user interfaces and certain forms of ASCII art to represent a junction where a vertical double line and a horizontal single line intersect. It belongs to the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which contains a set of line and corner symbols designed to create simple charts, tables, and borders in monospaced environments. This specific character combines a thick or double vertical stroke with a thinner single horizontal stroke, making it useful for depicting the meeting of different line weights in a grid or structural diagram.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+256B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Vertical Double and Horizontal Single |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Vertical Double and Horizontal 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x256B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000256B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u256b |