U+2575 "╵" Box Drawings Light Up Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2575 "╵" Box Drawings Light Up is a graphical symbol from the Box Drawing block, designed to represent a vertical line segment extending upward from a junction point, resembling a small "T" shape oriented upwards. It is one of several light-weight line elements used in creating simple textual diagrams, tables, or grid structures in monospaced environments, where its primary function is to denote the upward continuation of a vertical line in a layout. This character is sometimes employed in user interfaces or plain text art to visually indicate a component that can be "expanded" or "lightened" in a upward direction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2575 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Up |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Up |
| 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 0x95 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2575 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002575 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2575 |
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 | Alphabetic |
| 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 |