U+2536 "┶" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Up Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2536 "┶" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Up Light is a graphic symbol used in terminal and text based interfaces for creating box style diagrams, tables, and frames. It is part of the Box Drawing block, specifically a corner piece, characterized by having a thick (heavy) vertical line on its right side and a thin (light) horizontal line extending upward from its left side. This character supports precise visual line weight distinctions in character grid layouts, allowing for a mix of light and heavy strokes within the same border without the need for graphical images.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2536 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Up Light |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Right Heavy and Left Up 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2536 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002536 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2536 |