U+2522 "" Box Drawings Up Light and Right down Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2522 "" Box Drawings Up Light and Right down Heavy is a box-drawing glyph designed for creating text-based diagrams, grids, and terminal interfaces within the Unicode standard. It represents the intersection where three lines meet, with a lighter vertical line extending upward, a lighter horizontal line extending to the right, and a heavier (thicker) vertical line descending downward from the same junction. This specific combination of light and heavy strokes allows for visual emphasis or hierarchy in structured layouts, such as distinguishing borders or indicating direction in technical schematics. The character is part of the Box Drawing block (U+2500 to U+257F) and helps reproduce monospaced graphic designs in plain text without requiring complex formatting.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2522
Name
Box Drawings Up Light and Right down Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Up Light and Right down Heavy

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2522
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002522
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2522