U+2526 "┦" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left down Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
┦
U+2526 "┦" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left down Light is a graphical symbol within the Box Drawing block, specifically designed to represent a junction where a heavy vertical line extends upward from the intersection point, while a thin horizontal line leads to the left and a thin vertical line descends downward. This character is used in text-based user interfaces, terminal emulators, and ASCII art to create structured layouts or diagrams with varying line weights, with the heavy stroke typically indicating emphasis or a different visual thickness compared to the lighter strokes. It is also known by its official Unicode name, which describes the precise combination of thick upward and thin left and downward segments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2526 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left down Light |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Up Heavy and Left down Light |
| 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 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2526 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002526 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2526 |