U+254A BOX DRAWINGS LEFT LIGHT AND RIGHT VERTICAL HEAVY

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Decimal / Nº
9546
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+254A, officially named BOX DRAWINGS LEFT LIGHT AND RIGHT VERTICAL HEAVY, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Box Drawing block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as FORMS LEFT LIGHT AND RIGHT VERTICAL HEAVY.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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9546 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 95 8A Copied!
UTF-16 25 4A Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 4A Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%95%8A Copied!
HTML hex reference ╊ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'254A' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u254A Copied!
C and C++ \u254a Copied!
C# \u254a Copied!
CSS \00254A Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9546) Copied!
Go \u254a Copied!
JavaScript \u254A Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{254a} Copied!
JSON \u254A Copied!
Java \u254A Copied!
Lua \u{254A} Copied!
Matlab char(9546) Copied!
Perl \x{254A} Copied!
PHP \u{254a} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\254A' Copied!
PowerShell `u{254A} Copied!
Python \u254a Copied!
Ruby \u{254a} Copied!
Rust \u{254a} Copied!