U+251D "┝" Box Drawings Vertical Light and Right Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
┝
U+251D "┝" Box Drawings Vertical Light and Right Heavy is a glyph used in text based interfaces and technical diagrams to represent a specific junction in line drawing. It features a thin vertical line that continues upward and downward from the junction, while the horizontal line extending to the right is thick or heavy, creating a visual contrast for emphasis or hierarchy. This character is part of the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which standardizes a set of 128 such symbols for creating borders, tables, and charts without relying on graphics. By combining light and heavy strokes, it allows for nuanced formatting in plain text environments, such as terminal applications or legacy code displays, where clarity of structure is important.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+251D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Vertical Light and Right Heavy |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Vertical Light and Right 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 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x251D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000251D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u251d |