U+253B "┻" Box Drawings Heavy Up and Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+253B "┻" Box Drawings Heavy Up and Horizontal is a graphic symbol from the Box Drawing block, designed primarily for creating visual line structures in text-based interfaces. It depicts a heavy vertical line that terminates at a horizontal junction, extending left and right with thick strokes, meeting at a central cross point where the upward stroke ends. This character, often called a "heavy up and horizontal" connector, is used in technical documentation, terminal applications, and ASCII art to form the bottom edge of a box or to indicate a branching line that stops upward while continuing laterally. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent rendering across systems for vintage and modern text-based layouts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+253B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Up and Horizontal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy Up and Horizontal |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x253B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000253B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u253b |