U+250B "┋" Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other