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U+252C · BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL

Box Drawings Light Down and Horizontal

  • CodepointU+252C
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL
  • Decimal9516
  • 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+252C (┬) is BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL, 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 AC3 bytes
UTF-16252C1 code unit
UTF-320000252C4 bytes
HTML named┬named character reference
HTML decimal┬
HTML hex┬
CSS\252Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u252C
JSON\u252C
Python\u252C
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL}by name
Java / C#\u252C
C / C++\u252Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{252C}
Go\u252C
Ruby\u252C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9516)
URL-encoded%E2%94%ACpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
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+252A┪Box Drawings Up Light and Left Down Heavy U+252B┫Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Left 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 U+2531┱Box Drawings Right Light and Left Down Heavy U+2532┲Box Drawings Left Light and Right Down Heavy