U+252B "┫" Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Left Unicode Character

U+252B "┫" Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Left is a graphic symbol belonging to the Box Drawing block, designed to construct formatted text-based diagrams and borders. It represents a junction where a heavy vertical line meets a lighter horizontal line extending to the left, creating a corner shape that is typically used to connect lines in larger box structures. In plain text environments such as command line interfaces, terminal applications, or ASCII art, this character helps delineate sections, frame content, or build tables and flowcharts. Its consistent rendering across fonts ensures reliable visual alignment in monospaced contexts, making it a standard tool for creating rough visual layouts without relying on graphical user interfaces.

General Properties

Code Point	U+252B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Left
Unicode 1.0 Name	Forms Heavy 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 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x252B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000252B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u252b

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