U+2522 "┢" Box Drawings Up Light and Right down Heavy Unicode Character

U+2522 "┢" Box Drawings Up Light and Right down Heavy is a box-drawing glyph designed for creating text-based diagrams, grids, and terminal interfaces within the Unicode standard. It represents the intersection where three lines meet, with a lighter vertical line extending upward, a lighter horizontal line extending to the right, and a heavier (thicker) vertical line descending downward from the same junction. This specific combination of light and heavy strokes allows for visual emphasis or hierarchy in structured layouts, such as distinguishing borders or indicating direction in technical schematics. The character is part of the Box Drawing block (U+2500 to U+257F) and helps reproduce monospaced graphic designs in plain text without requiring complex formatting.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2522
Version Added	1.1
Name	Box Drawings Up Light and Right down Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name	Forms Up Light and Right down 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 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2522
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002522
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2522

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