Box Drawings Vertical Single And Horizontal Double

Group: Box drawing

Keywords

box-drawing

About this character

Box Drawings Vertical Single And Horizontal Double belongs to the Box drawing group and is encoded at U+256A. 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+256A
Hex: 256A
Decimal: 9578
HTML: ╪
CSS: \256A
JavaScript: \u256A
Python: \u256A
UTF-8: E2 95 AA

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.