U+2533 "┳" Box Drawings Heavy down and Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |