U+252F "┯" Box Drawings down Light and Horizontal Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+252F "┯" Box Drawings down Light and Horizontal Heavy is a graphic symbol used in text-based user interfaces, technical diagrams, and legacy computer systems to represent the intersection of a vertical line extending downward in a light stroke with a horizontal line extending left and right in a heavy or thick stroke. It belongs to the Unicode Box Drawing block, which provides characters for creating simple visual layouts and borders using a monospaced font. This specific character is typically employed within grids, tables, or flowcharts to denote a junction where a thin vertical line descends from a thicker horizontal line, contributing to structured visual representations of data or process flows.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+252F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings down Light and Horizontal Heavy |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms down Light and Horizontal 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x252F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000252F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u252f |