U+253E "┾" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Vertical Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+253E "┾" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Vertical Light is a box-drawing glyph that forms part of the box-drawing block within the Unicode standard. This specific character creates a T-shaped junction where the vertical line to the left is drawn with a light weight, while the horizontal line extending to the right is drawn with a heavy or thick weight. It is typically used in text-based user interfaces, ASCII art, and technical diagrams to construct frames, tables, or grids where varying line thicknesses convey structural hierarchy or visual emphasis.

General Properties

Code Point U+253E
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Vertical Light
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Right Heavy and Left Vertical 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 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x253E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000253E
C/C++/Java Escape \u253e

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