Box Drawings Heavy Vertical vs Box Drawings Light Vertical

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

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Box Drawings Heavy Vertical

U+2503

Box Drawings Light Vertical

U+2502

Property Comparison

Property Box Drawings Heavy Vertical Box Drawings Light Vertical
Codepoint U+2503 U+2502
Decimal 9475 9474
HTML Entity ┃ │
HTML Decimal ┃ │
HTML Hex ┃ │
UTF-8 E2 94 83 E2 94 82
UTF-16 25 03 25 02
UTF-32 00002503 00002502
CSS Escape \2503 \2502
JS Escape \u2503 \u2502
Python Escape \u2503 \u2502
URL Encoded %E2%94%83 %E2%94%82
Category Other Symbol (So) Other Symbol (So)
Block Box Drawing Box Drawing
Script Common Common
Bidi Class ON ON
Unicode Version 1.1 1.1
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.