U+2533 "┳" Box Drawings Heavy down and Horizontal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2533 "┳" Box Drawings Heavy down and Horizontal is part of the Box Drawing block in the Unicode standard, designed for creating simple text-based diagrams and tables in monospaced environments. It depicts a heavy vertical line descending from a continuous thick horizontal line, forming a T-shaped junction often used in the top row of a grid or as a connector in flowchart or terminal interfaces. This character is typically rendered as a single glyph with thick strokes, providing a visual distinction from its light or double-line counterparts, and it is commonly employed in legacy systems, technical documentation, and ASCII art to represent structural boundaries.

General Properties

Code Point U+2533
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Heavy down and Horizontal
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Heavy down and Horizontal
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 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2533
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002533
C/C++/Java Escape \u2533

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