U+253A "" Box Drawings Left Light and Right Up Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+253A "" Box Drawings Left Light and Right Up Heavy is a graphical glyph used in terminal interfaces and text-based diagrams to create precise line connections within box-drawing character sets. It represents a junction where the left side uses a thin, light stroke while the right and upward sides use a thicker, heavy stroke, allowing for the depiction of varied line weights in structured layouts. This character is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block, coded as U+253A, and is commonly employed in legacy computing, technical schematics, and ascii art to convey hierarchical or branching relationships with visual emphasis on certain directions.

General Properties

Code Point
U+253A
Name
Box Drawings Left Light and Right Up Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Left Light and Right Up Heavy

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding
0x253A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000253A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u253a