Technical information

Symbol
NameBox drawings light triple dash vertical
Unicode numberU+2506
CategoryLight and heavy dashed lines
DescriptionThe Unicode character ┆, or U+2506, is known as the "Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical". It belongs to the "Box Drawing" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a vertical line that is broken into three equal segments, symbolizing a dashed line in vertical direction. It is mainly used in text user interfaces, terminal emulators, or as a part of other symbols. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity┆
HTML Entity (hex)┆
URL Escape Code%E2%94%86
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x94 0x86
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010100:10000110
UTF-160x2506
UTF-320x00002506

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2506"
CSS Code\2506
JavaScript"\u2506"
Perl\x{2506}
Python 2u"\u2506"
Python 3\u2506
Ruby\u{2506}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ┆ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9478;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2506";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References