U+251F "┟" Box Drawings down Heavy and Right Up Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+251F "┟" Box Drawings down Heavy and Right Up Light is a graphic symbol used in text-based interfaces and terminal applications to construct borders, grid lines, or box-like structures, specifically forming a corner junction where a heavy vertical line extending downward meets a light horizontal line moving to the right and a light vertical line moving upward. Part of the Box Drawing block in Unicode, it enables precise visual layout in plain text by combining different line weights, allowing programmers and document designers to create tables, diagrams, or user interface elements without relying on images or complex formatting. Its design distinguishes it from similar characters by the specific asymmetry of heavy and light strokes, making it useful for emphasizing certain borders or breaks in a grid system.

General Properties

Code Point U+251F
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings down Heavy and Right Up Light
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms down Heavy and Right Up 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 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x251F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000251F
C/C++/Java Escape \u251f

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