U+2523 "┣" Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2523 "┣" Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Right is a graphical symbol belonging to the Box Drawing block, specifically designed for creating simple line-based diagrams, tables, and text-based user interfaces. This particular glyph combines a heavy vertical line on its left side with a heavy horizontal line extending to the right, forming a T-shaped junction where the vertical stem meets the rightward branch. It is commonly used in legacy computing environments, terminal emulators, and plain text formatting to represent the intersection of a thick vertical border with a thick horizontal border that continues only to the right. As part of the larger set of box-drawing characters, "┣" helps construct structured visual layouts where the weight of the lines indicates thickness or emphasis, making it a practical tool for retro-style graphical representations and code comments.

General Properties

Code Point U+2523
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Right
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Heavy 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 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2523
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002523
C/C++/Java Escape \u2523

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