U+253A

BOX DRAWINGS LEFT LIGHT AND RIGHT UP HEAVY

So — Other Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
9530

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent BOX DRAWINGS LEFT LIGHT AND RIGHT UP HEAVY in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E2 94 BA 226 148 186 3
UTF-16 LE 3A 25 58 37 2
UTF-16 BE 25 3A 37 58 2
UTF-32 LE 3A 25 00 00 58 37 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 25 3A 0 0 37 58 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK A9 DE 169 222 2
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
┺
┺
\253A
\u253A
%E2%94%BA
\u253a
9530

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
94
·
Byte 3
1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0
BA
UTF-8: E2 94 BA · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+253A

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ON — Other Neutral

Nearby Characters in Box Drawing