U+2534 "┴" Box Drawings Light Up and Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2534 "┴" Box Drawings Light Up and Horizontal is a graphic symbol used in the creation of simple text-based diagrams, tables, and terminal interfaces, forming a T-shaped junction where a single vertical line descends from the midpoint of a continuous horizontal line. It belongs to the Box Drawing block of Unicode, which provides a set of characters for representing lines, corners, and intersections using single or double line weights. This specific code point represents a light (thin) line style, making it distinct from its heavy or double line counterparts, and is commonly employed in legacy computing environments, such as DOS command-line applications and ASCII art, to visually connect grid elements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2534 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Up and Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Up 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 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2534 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002534 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2534 |