U+256C "╬" Box Drawings Double Vertical and Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+256C "╬" Box Drawings Double Vertical and Horizontal is a single glyph within the Box Drawing block that represents the intersection point of a double vertical line and a double horizontal line in a text-based grid. It forms the central junction where four double-lined arms meet, creating a solid cross shape that is commonly used in ASCII art, terminal interfaces, and plaintext diagrams to connect four surrounding cells with equal double borders. Visually composed of two parallel lines running vertically and two running horizontally, this character ensures consistent line weight and alignment in technical drawings or retro computing displays where precise border styling is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+256C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Double Vertical and Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Double Vertical and Horizontal |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x256C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000256C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u256c |