U+252C "┬" Box Drawings Light down and Horizontal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+252C "┬" Box Drawings Light down and Horizontal is a graphic symbol in the Box Drawing block, used to represent the intersection of a single vertical line descending from a continuous horizontal line. It resembles an upside-down "T" and is commonly employed in text-based user interfaces, terminal applications, and plain text diagrams to create the top junction of a table or a branch in a flowchart. This character is part of a larger set of box drawing glyphs derived from the line-drawing characters of early character encodings, designed to form clean, monospaced grid structures in command-line environments and documentation.
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Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Left
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U+252D
Box Drawings Left Heavy and Right down Light
General Properties
Code Point
U+252C
Name
Box Drawings Light down and Horizontal
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Light down and Horizontal
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
┬
HTML Hex Encoding
┬
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x252C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000252C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u252c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common