Box Drawings Light Vertical Forms Light Vertical

U+2502

About Box Drawings Light Vertical Forms Light Vertical

Box Drawings Light Vertical Forms Light Vertical is the Unicode character │ at codepoint U+2502 in the Box Drawing block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

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Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Box Drawings Light Vertical Forms Light Vertical

To use the Box Drawings Light Vertical Forms Light Vertical symbol (│) in HTML, insert the entity │ directly into your markup. The decimal entity │ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2502';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2502' evaluates to │. In Python source, write '\u2502'.

The character encodes to E2 94 82 as UTF-8 bytes and 2502 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9474.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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