U+251A "┚" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+251A "┚" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left Light is a component of the Box Drawing block, designed for creating text-based diagrams and borders. It features a vertical stem that is thick or heavy extending upward from the intersection point, while the horizontal arm traveling leftward is thin or light in weight. This specific combination of heavy and light strokes allows for precise visual differentiation in line art, often used to denote the corner where a thick vertical line meets a thin horizontal line in technical schematics or legacy computer interfaces.
General Properties
Code Point
U+251A
Name
Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left Light
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Up Heavy and Left Light
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
┚
HTML Hex Encoding
┚
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x251A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000251A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u251a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common