U+2538 "┸" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Horizontal Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2538 "┸" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Horizontal Light is a visual glyph from the Box Drawing block, designed for creating simple text-based diagrams and tables in monospaced environments. It features a thick vertical line that extends upward from a thin horizontal line at its base, producing an asymmetrical T‑shape or intersection where the weight of the stroke changes abruptly. This character is commonly used in terminal interfaces, plaintext flowcharts, or retro computing contexts to represent a junction where a heavy vertical element meets a lighter horizontal one.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2538 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Up Heavy and Horizontal Light |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Up Heavy and Horizontal 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2538 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002538 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2538 |