U+2511 "┑" Box Drawings down Light and Left Heavy Unicode Character

U+2511 "┑" Box Drawings down Light and Left Heavy is a box drawing symbol used in text based interfaces and terminal graphics to create the bottom left corner of a box where the vertical line extending downward is drawn with a single light stroke, while the horizontal line extending to the left is drawn with a double or heavy stroke. This character belongs to the Box Drawing block, which was included in Unicode version 1.1 to support legacy character cell graphics common in older computing systems and command line interfaces. It is typically used in combination with other box drawing characters to construct complex borders, tables, or diagrams where a visual distinction between line weights is needed, emphasizing the left side of the box more than the vertical direction.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2511
Version Added	1.1
Name	Box Drawings down Light and Left Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name	Forms down Light and Left 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 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2511
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002511
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2511

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