U+251C "├" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+251C "├" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Right is a graphical symbol used in text-based user interfaces, technical diagrams, and ASCII art to represent a T-shaped junction in a grid or table, where a single vertical line meets a horizontal line extending to the right. It forms part of the box-drawing block in Unicode, specifically within the range from U+2500 to U+257F, and is typically rendered as a thin continuous line. This character is essential for creating structured layouts in plain text environments, such as terminal emulators or programming source code, where it helps connect a vertical stem to a branch heading rightward, enabling the construction of more complex charts or flowcharts without relying on images.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+251C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Vertical and Right |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Vertical and Right |
| 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x251C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000251C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u251c |