U+251D "" Box Drawings Vertical Light and Right Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+251D "" Box Drawings Vertical Light and Right Heavy is a glyph used in text based interfaces and technical diagrams to represent a specific junction in line drawing. It features a thin vertical line that continues upward and downward from the junction, while the horizontal line extending to the right is thick or heavy, creating a visual contrast for emphasis or hierarchy. This character is part of the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which standardizes a set of 128 such symbols for creating borders, tables, and charts without relying on graphics. By combining light and heavy strokes, it allows for nuanced formatting in plain text environments, such as terminal applications or legacy code displays, where clarity of structure is important.

General Properties

Code Point
U+251D
Name
Box Drawings Vertical Light and Right Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Vertical Light and Right Heavy

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
┝
HTML Hex Encoding
┝
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x251D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000251D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u251d