U+256B BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL DOUBLE AND HORIZONTAL SINGLE

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Decimal / Nº
9579
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+256B, officially named BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL DOUBLE AND HORIZONTAL SINGLE, 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 VERTICAL DOUBLE AND HORIZONTAL SINGLE.

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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9579 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 95 AB Copied!
UTF-16 25 6B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 6B Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%95%AB Copied!
HTML hex reference ╫ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'256B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u256B Copied!
C and C++ \u256b Copied!
C# \u256b Copied!
CSS \00256B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9579) Copied!
Go \u256b Copied!
JavaScript \u256B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{256b} Copied!
JSON \u256B Copied!
Java \u256B Copied!
Lua \u{256B} Copied!
Matlab char(9579) Copied!
Perl \x{256B} Copied!
PHP \u{256b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\256B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{256B} Copied!
Python \u256b Copied!
Ruby \u{256b} Copied!
Rust \u{256b} Copied!