U+253A "┺" Box Drawings Left Light and Right Up Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+253A "┺" Box Drawings Left Light and Right Up Heavy is a graphical glyph used in terminal interfaces and text-based diagrams to create precise line connections within box-drawing character sets. It represents a junction where the left side uses a thin, light stroke while the right and upward sides use a thicker, heavy stroke, allowing for the depiction of varied line weights in structured layouts. This character is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block, coded as U+253A, and is commonly employed in legacy computing, technical schematics, and ascii art to convey hierarchical or branching relationships with visual emphasis on certain directions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+253A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Left Light and Right Up Heavy |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Left Light and Right 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 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x253A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000253A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u253a |