U+2516 "┖" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Right Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2516 "┖" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Right Light is a graphical element used primarily in text-based user interfaces, terminal applications, and ASCII art to create borders and frames. It depicts a corner shape where a thick vertical line on the left side meets a thin horizontal line along the top, representing a junction that opens to the top right area of a table or box. This character belongs to the Box Drawing block in the Unicode standard, which provides a set of pseudographic symbols designed for constructing visual layouts without the need for raster graphics. It allows for precise, monospaced rendering of structural diagrams when combined with other heavy and light line characters, though its use has declined with the advent of modern graphical interfaces.

General Properties

Code Point U+2516
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Up Heavy and Right Light
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Up Heavy and Right Light
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 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2516
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002516
C/C++/Java Escape \u2516

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