U+2524 "┤" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Left Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2524 "┤" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Left is a glyph within the Box Drawing block, designed to form a right border or corner by combining a single light vertical line on its right side with two horizontal arms extending leftward. This character is used in text based interfaces, such as terminal emulators or ASCII art, to represent the intersection where a vertical line on the right meets horizontal lines on the left, effectively creating a T like shape oriented toward the left. It is part of a systematic set of box drawing symbols that allow for the construction of borders, tables, and diagrams using uniform thin lines within monospaced fonts.

General Properties

Code Point U+2524
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Light Vertical and Left
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Light Vertical and Left
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 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2524
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002524
C/C++/Java Escape \u2524

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