U+2519 "┙" Box Drawings Up Light and Left Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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