Technical information

Symbol
NameBox drawings light double dash vertical
Unicode numberU+254E
CategoryLight and heavy dashed lines
DescriptionThe Unicode character ╎, or U+254E, is known as the "Box Drawings Light Double 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 with two breaks, designed to look like a dashed line. It is primarily used in creating text-based user interfaces or simple graphics. 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%95%8E
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x95 0x8E
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010101:10001110
UTF-160x254E
UTF-320x0000254E

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u254E"
CSS Code\254E
JavaScript"\u254E"
Perl\x{254E}
Python 2u"\u254E"
Python 3\u254E
Ruby\u{254E}

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>&#9550;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\254E";
}

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