U+253E "┾" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Vertical Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |