U+2521 "┡" Box Drawings down Light and Right Up Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2521 "┡" Box Drawings down Light and Right Up Heavy is a graphical glyph used in text-based user interfaces and ASCII art to represent the intersection of four branches in a box-drawing diagram, where the vertical line extending downward is drawn with a light weight, while the horizontal line extending to the right and the vertical line going upward are both rendered with a heavy weight, creating a distinctive asymmetrical joint. This character belongs to the Box Drawing block in Unicode, allowing programmers and designers to construct precise borders and grid structures in terminal applications, source code comments, or plain text files without relying on images or formatting markup.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2521 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings down Light and Right Up Heavy |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms down Light and Right Up 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 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2521 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002521 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2521 |