U+253E "" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Vertical Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+253E "" Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Vertical Light is a box-drawing glyph that forms part of the box-drawing block within the Unicode standard. This specific character creates a T-shaped junction where the vertical line to the left is drawn with a light weight, while the horizontal line extending to the right is drawn with a heavy or thick weight. It is typically used in text-based user interfaces, ASCII art, and technical diagrams to construct frames, tables, or grids where varying line thicknesses convey structural hierarchy or visual emphasis.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x94 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding
0x253E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000253E
C/C++/Java Escape
\u253e