U+252C "┬" Box Drawings Light down and Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+252C "┬" Box Drawings Light down and Horizontal is a graphic symbol in the Box Drawing block, used to represent the intersection of a single vertical line descending from a continuous horizontal line. It resembles an upside-down "T" and is commonly employed in text-based user interfaces, terminal applications, and plain text diagrams to create the top junction of a table or a branch in a flowchart. This character is part of a larger set of box drawing glyphs derived from the line-drawing characters of early character encodings, designed to form clean, monospaced grid structures in command-line environments and documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+252C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light down and Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light down and Horizontal |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x252C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000252C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u252c |