Box Drawings Heavy Vertical

U+2503
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ┃
Hex ┃

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+2503
Decimal
9475
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol (So)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Box Drawings Heavy Vertical.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
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HTML Hex
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UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 94 83
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
25 03
UTF-32 Hex
00002503
CSS Escape
\2503
JavaScript Escape
\u2503
Python Escape
\u2503
URL Encoded
%E2%94%83
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