U+251A "┚" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
┚
U+251A "┚" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left Light is a component of the Box Drawing block, designed for creating text-based diagrams and borders. It features a vertical stem that is thick or heavy extending upward from the intersection point, while the horizontal arm traveling leftward is thin or light in weight. This specific combination of heavy and light strokes allows for precise visual differentiation in line art, often used to denote the corner where a thick vertical line meets a thin horizontal line in technical schematics or legacy computer interfaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+251A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left Light |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Up Heavy and Left 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 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x251A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000251A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u251a |