U+2531 "┱" Box Drawings Right Light and Left down Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2531 "┱" Box Drawings Right Light and Left down Heavy is a graphic symbol from the Box Drawing block, used for creating text-based charts, diagrams, or user interfaces in terminal environments. It features a vertical line on the right side with a light weight, while the left vertical line and the downward horizontal stroke are rendered with a heavy weight, creating an asymmetric appearance. This character is not intended for textual meaning but serves as a visual building block for constructing larger framed structures in plain text.

General Properties

Code Point U+2531
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Right Light and Left down Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Right Light and Left down 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 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2531
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002531
C/C++/Java Escape \u2531

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