Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Vertical

Group: Box drawing

Keywords

box-drawing

About this character

Box Drawings Heavy Double Dash Vertical belongs to the Box drawing group and is encoded at U+254F. 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+254F
Hex: 254F
Decimal: 9551
HTML: ╏
CSS: \254F
JavaScript: \u254F
Python: \u254F
UTF-8: E2 95 8F

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

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.