U+253C

BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL

So — Other Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
9532

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL 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 BC 226 148 188 3
UTF-16 LE 3C 25 60 37 2
UTF-16 BE 25 3C 37 60 2
UTF-32 LE 3C 25 00 00 60 37 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 25 3C 0 0 37 60 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 8A 138 1
Shift-JIS 84 A9 132 169 2
EUC-JP A8 AB 168 171 2
GBK A9 E0 169 224 2
Big5 A2 71 162 113 2

Escape Sequences

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

none
┼
┼
\253C
\u253C
%E2%94%BC
\u253c
9532

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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 1 0 0
BC
UTF-8: E2 94 BC · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+253C

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ON — Other Neutral

Nearby Characters in Box Drawing