U+2530 "┰" Box Drawings down Heavy and Horizontal Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2530 "┰" Box Drawings down Heavy and Horizontal Light is a specific glyph used in text-based graphics and terminal interfaces to create box-like structures with varied line weights. It features a vertical line that is thick or heavy descending from the junction of a thin, light horizontal line, allowing for the depiction of a T-shaped intersection where only the downward branch is emphasized. This character is part of the Box Drawing block, which standardizes a grid of 128 symbols designed for ASCII and legacy text applications, enabling precise rendering of partial borders and corners when constructing tables or diagrams without relying on graphical fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2530 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings down Heavy and Horizontal Light |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms down Heavy and Horizontal 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 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2530 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002530 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2530 |