U+252C "" Box Drawings Light down and Horizontal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK 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.

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
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x252C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000252C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u252c