U+2536 "┶" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Up Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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