U+2515 "┕" Box Drawings Up Light and Right Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2515 "┕" Box Drawings Up Light and Right Heavy is a specific glyph in the Box Drawing block that combines a thin vertical line segment extending upward with a thick horizontal line segment extending to the right, creating a corner shape used for constructing framed diagrams and textual grids. Introduced as part of the original Unicode standard, this character belongs to a set of 128 box drawing symbols designed to form continuous lines when placed adjacent to one another, with the "light" and "heavy" designations indicating the relative thickness of the strokes. It is commonly employed in technical documentation, ASCII art, and terminal user interfaces where precise alignment and visual hierarchy are needed within monospaced text environments, though its usage has declined with modern graphical interfaces.

General Properties

Code Point U+2515
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Up Light and Right Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Up 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 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2515
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002515
C/C++/Java Escape \u2515

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