U+2519 "┙" Box Drawings Up Light and Left Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2519 "┙" Box Drawings Up Light and Left Heavy is a graphic symbol used in text-based user interfaces, terminal applications, and technical diagrams to define the junction where a thin vertical line meets a thick horizontal line at the top left corner of a box or border. It belongs to the Box Drawing block of Unicode, which provides a set of precomposed line and corner characters for creating structured layouts in monospaced environments. Specifically, this character creates a visual break where the upward stroke is light and the leftward stroke is heavy, allowing programmers and designers to differentiate between line weights in ASCII art, console menus, or other plain text representations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2519 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Up Light and Left Heavy |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Up 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 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2519 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002519 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2519 |