U+2537 "┷" Box Drawings Up Light and Horizontal Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2537 "┷" Box Drawings Up Light and Horizontal Heavy is a box drawing symbol that features a light vertical stroke extending upward from the center of a thick horizontal line. This character is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block and is used primarily in text based interfaces and terminal applications to create structured borders, grids, or tables where a junction requires a heavy top horizontal segment paired with a thin upper connector. Its design allows it to represent a three way intersection with a bold baseline and a delicate ascending line, contributing to the visual hierarchy and clarity of line art or diagrammatic text.

General Properties

Code Point U+2537
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Up Light and Horizontal Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Up Light and Horizontal Heavy
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 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2537
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002537
C/C++/Java Escape \u2537

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