U+250B "┋" Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+250B "┋" Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical is a graphic character used in text-based user interfaces and terminal applications to represent a vertical line composed of four heavy dashes. It belongs to the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which provides a set of symbols for drawing borders, grids, and simple diagrams in monospaced fonts. This specific character is designed to connect adjacent vertical segments in heavy weight box drawing, often used in combination with horizontal and corner characters to create structured layouts or tables. Its appearance consists of a tall, thick vertical bar with four evenly spaced gaps, resembling a segmented or dashed heavy vertical line.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+250B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical |
| Block | Box Drawing |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ┋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ┋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x94 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x250B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000250B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u250b |