U+252E "┮" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left down Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+252E "┮" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left down Light is a box-drawing symbol used in text-based user interfaces and technical diagrams to create grid lines with varying stroke weights. It forms a corner or junction where a heavy vertical line on the right meets a light horizontal line extending to the left and a light vertical line descending downward, creating a distinct asymmetry that helps denote hierarchy or structural boundaries in plain text renderings.

General Properties

Code Point U+252E
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left down Light
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Right 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 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x252E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000252E
C/C++/Java Escape \u252e

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