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Box Drawings Double Vertical

Group: Box drawing

Keywords

About this character

Box Drawings Double Vertical belongs to the Box drawing group and is encoded at U+2551. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+2551
Hex
2551
Decimal
9553
HTML
║
CSS
\2551
JavaScript
\u2551
Python
\u2551
UTF-8
E2 95 91

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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