U+2525 "┥" Box Drawings Vertical Light and Left Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2525 "┥" Box Drawings Vertical Light and Left Heavy is a typographic symbol used in text-based diagrams and terminal interfaces, forming part of the Box Drawing block. It represents a junction in a line drawing where a vertical light stroke meets a horizontal heavy stroke on its left side, creating an asymmetrical T shape. This character is commonly employed in creating borders, tables, and structured layouts where visual weight is needed on the left, such as in legacy computer systems, console applications, or plain text rendering. Its design ensures clarity in monospaced fonts, allowing for precise alignment in character-based graphics without requiring graphical rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2525 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Vertical Light and Left Heavy |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Vertical Light and Left 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 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2525 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002525 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2525 |