U+2539 "┹" Box Drawings Right Light and Left Up Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2539 "┹" Box Drawings Right Light and Left Up Heavy is a graphic symbol used in character-based diagrams and text interfaces to represent a specific junction in a grid, where two lines meet: a light line extends to the right, while a heavy line extends both to the left and upward. This character belongs to the Box Drawing block within Unicode, which provides a set of 128 such line and corner elements that allow for the creation of simple charts, tables, and borders using monospaced fonts. Its visual asymmetry, with one thin line and two thick lines meeting at a corner, enables precise rendering of structural boundaries or shaded partitions in text mode, supporting applications like old terminal interfaces, ASCII art, and technical documentation where weight of lines conveys hierarchy or emphasis.

General Properties

Code Point U+2539
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Right Light and Left Up Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Right Light and Left Up 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 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2539
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002539
C/C++/Java Escape \u2539

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