U+252F "┯" Box Drawings down Light and Horizontal Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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