How do I type the ┿ box drawings vertical light and horizontal heavy symbol?

On Windows, type 253F and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 253f. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for ┿?

Box Drawings Vertical Light And Horizontal Heavy is U+253F. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

What kind of character is ┿?

Box Drawings Vertical Light And Horizontal Heavy is filed under Other symbol in the Box Drawing block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.

U+253F · Other symbol

Box Drawings Vertical Light And Horizontal Heavy Symbol ┿

┿ is box drawings vertical light and horizontal heavy, U+253F. Unicode also records it as “Videotex Mosaic DG 13”. It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Other symbol.

Also known as

Videotex Mosaic DG 13

Unicode 1.0 called this character forms vertical light and horizontal heavy. The standard renamed it later, but documents, fonts and font-editing tools from that era still use the old name.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+253F`
HTML hex	`┿`
HTML decimal	`┿`
CSS	`\253F`
JavaScript	`\u{253F}`
Python	`\U0000253F`
Java / C#	`\u253F`
Rust	`\u{253f}`
Swift	`\u{253F}`
PHP	`\u{253F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%94%BF`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 94 BF`
UTF-16 bytes	`253F`
Base64	`4pS/`
Decimal	`9535`
Category	Other symbol (So)
Introduced	Unicode 1.1

Will ┿ survive being pasted?

Normalisation. Yes. ┿ is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
Legacy encodings. ┿ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.

Other drawings characters

Unicode names 24 characters ending in “drawings”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.

Nearby in Box Drawing

The line-drawing characters that terminal interfaces were built from before graphics. Single, double, heavy and rounded corners, in every junction combination — still the standard way to draw a table in a monospace font.

All 128 characters in Box Drawing →

How to type ┿

Windows	Type `253F` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “box drawings vertical light and horizontal heavy”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `253f`, press `Enter`
HTML	`┿`

About Unicode’s Other symbol category

Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.

Frequently asked questions

How do I type the ┿ box drawings vertical light and horizontal heavy symbol?: On Windows, type 253F and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 253f. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for ┿?: Box Drawings Vertical Light And Horizontal Heavy is U+253F. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
What kind of character is ┿?: Box Drawings Vertical Light And Horizontal Heavy is filed under Other symbol in the Box Drawing block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.