U+250D "┍" Box Drawings down Light and Right Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+250D "┍" Box Drawings down Light and Right Heavy is a typographic symbol from the Box Drawing block, used to create terminal or corner junctions in text-based diagrams and user interfaces, specifically marking a transition from a light vertical line downward to a heavy horizontal line extending right. It is part of a system of eight variants based on line weight and direction, designed for compatibility with legacy terminal graphics and character cell grids. This character helps form precisely weighted visual boundaries, often appearing in tables, frames, or software where a mix of thick and thin lines denotes structural hierarchy.

General Properties

Code Point U+250D
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings down Light and Right Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms down Light and Right Heavy
Block Box Drawing
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ┍
HTML Hex Encoding ┍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x94 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x250D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000250D
C/C++/Java Escape \u250d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other