U+2514 "└" Box Drawings Light Up and Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2514 "└" Box Drawings Light Up and Right is a graphical glyph belonging to the Box Drawing block, designed to represent a single light line that starts at a junction and extends upward and to the right. It is typically used in text based user interfaces, ASCII art, and terminal applications to construct tables, flowcharts, and simple diagrams where clean, monospaced borders are needed. This character forms part of a larger set of box drawing symbols that allow for the creation of continuous grid lines without gaps, with its specific function being to connect a vertical line below to a horizontal line on its left. Its standardized presence across all Unicode compliant fonts ensures consistent rendering in plain text environments, making it a fundamental tool for legacy computing aesthetics and modern coding documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+2514
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Light Up and Right
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Light Up and Right
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 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2514
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002514
C/C++/Java Escape \u2514

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