U+252A "┪" Box Drawings Up Light and Left down Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+252A "┪" Box Drawings Up Light and Left down Heavy is a graphic symbol within the Box Drawing block, designed for creating text-based diagrams and user interface elements. As its descriptive name implies, the glyph consists of a vertical line stroke that is thin (light) extending upward from a junction, and a horizontal line stroke that is thick (heavy) extending leftward from the same junction, while the downward vertical stroke is also thick (heavy). This specific combination allows for the representation of a corner or branching point in monospace text layouts where line weight variation differentiates the visual hierarchy of connected lines. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to ensure consistent rendering across different fonts and platforms, preserving the structural integrity of technical drawings and terminal-based applications.

General Properties

Code Point U+252A
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Up Light and Left down Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Up Light and Left 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 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x252A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000252A
C/C++/Java Escape \u252a

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