U+253A "┺" Box Drawings Left Light and Right Up Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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