U+2538 "" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Horizontal Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2538 "" Box Drawings Up Heavy and Horizontal Light is a visual glyph from the Box Drawing block, designed for creating simple text-based diagrams and tables in monospaced environments. It features a thick vertical line that extends upward from a thin horizontal line at its base, producing an asymmetrical T‑shape or intersection where the weight of the stroke changes abruptly. This character is commonly used in terminal interfaces, plaintext flowcharts, or retro computing contexts to represent a junction where a heavy vertical element meets a lighter horizontal one.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2538
Name
Box Drawings Up Heavy and Horizontal Light
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Up Heavy and Horizontal Light

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
┸
HTML Hex Encoding
┸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2538
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002538
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2538