U+256C BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL

The Unicode character U+256C, officially named BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL, 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 DOUBLE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL.

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.