| Character | ╎ |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Double Dash Vertical |
| Unicode Code Point | U+254E |
| Decimal Value | 9550 |
| Hex Value | 0x254E |
| Category | Box Drawing |
| Windows Alt Code | Not available — use copy/paste |
| Word Alt+X Code | 254E + Alt+X |
| Mac Shortcut | Not available — use copy/paste |
| HTML Entity | ╎ |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | ╎ / ╎ |
| CSS Content Code | content: "\254E"; |
| JavaScript Unicode Escape | "\u{254E}" |
Box Drawings Light Double Dash Vertical is a box-drawing character used to construct borders, tables, and frames directly out of text characters — a technique still used today in terminal applications, ASCII art, and command-line tool interfaces.
Unicode block: Box Drawing (U+2500–U+257F). Box-drawing characters originate from early IBM PC "code page 437" graphics, used to draw borders, tables, and simple UI frames in text-mode DOS applications before graphical interfaces existed.
At Unicode code point U+254E (decimal 9550), Box Drawings Light Double Dash Vertical is the 79th of 128 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, like most characters outside the 0–255 legacy codepage range, it has no dedicated Alt-code or single-key shortcut on Windows or Mac, so copy-paste is the standard, universal method for typing it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.
💡 Good to know: Mixing single-line and double-line box-drawing characters in the same border will produce visual gaps — stay consistent within one drawing.
No alt code available — click the copy button above and paste with Ctrl+V.
No dedicated shortcut — click the copy button above and paste with Cmd+V.
Click the symbol above to copy it, then paste anywhere — works on every device and OS.
Use the entity ╎ in your HTML.