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

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+253F "" Box Drawings Vertical Light and Horizontal Heavy is a graphic symbol used primarily in text-based user interfaces and technical diagrams to draw borders and grid lines. As its name indicates, this character combines a light vertical line with a heavy horizontal line, creating a cross or intersection that visually distinguishes the horizontal axis as thicker or more prominent. It belongs to the Box Drawing block of Unicode, which was designed to allow the creation of simple geometric layouts using monospaced fonts, making it especially useful for representing charts, tables, or terminal-based applications where precise line weights are needed.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
┿
HTML Hex Encoding
┿
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x253F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000253F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u253f