U+253C "" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+253C "" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal is a glyph used in text-based interfaces and terminal graphics to represent the intersection point where a single vertical line and a single horizontal line cross. It is part of the Box Drawing block within the Unicode standard, designed to construct simple rectangular frames and grid structures without requiring actual images or complex formatting. This character is drawn with thin, light strokes at a standard thickness, making it consistent with other light box-drawing symbols for creating basic tables, diagrams, or text partitions in plain text environments.

General Properties

Code Point
U+253C
Name
Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Light Vertical and Horizontal

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x253C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000253C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u253c