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U+252A · BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND LEFT DOWN HEAVY

Box Drawings Up Light and Left Down Heavy

  • CodepointU+252A
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND LEFT DOWN HEAVY
  • Decimal9514
  • BlockBox Drawing (U+2500–U+257F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+252A (┪) is BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND LEFT DOWN HEAVY, a symbol in the Box Drawing block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ┪

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 94 AA3 bytes
UTF-16252A1 code unit
UTF-320000252A4 bytes
HTML decimal┪
HTML hex┪
CSS\252Ain content: "…"
JavaScript\u252A
JSON\u252A
Python\u252A
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND LEFT DOWN HEAVY}by name
Java / C#\u252A
C / C++\u252Auniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{252A}
Go\u252A
Ruby\u252A
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9514)
URL-encoded%E2%94%AApercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2524┤Box Drawings Light Vertical and Left U+2525┥Box Drawings Vertical Light and Left Heavy U+2526┦Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left Down Light U+2527┧Box Drawings Down Heavy and Left Up Light U+2528┨Box Drawings Vertical Heavy and Left Light U+2529┩Box Drawings Down Light and Left Up Heavy U+252B┫Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Left U+252C┬Box Drawings Light Down and Horizontal U+252D┭Box Drawings Left Heavy and Right Down Light U+252E┮Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Down Light U+252F┯Box Drawings Down Light and Horizontal Heavy U+2530┰Box Drawings Down Heavy and Horizontal Light