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U+252E · BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT HEAVY AND LEFT DOWN LIGHT

Box Drawings Right Heavy and Left Down Light

  • CodepointU+252E
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS RIGHT HEAVY AND LEFT DOWN LIGHT
  • Decimal9518
  • 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+252E (┮) is BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT HEAVY AND LEFT DOWN LIGHT, 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 AE3 bytes
UTF-16252E1 code unit
UTF-320000252E4 bytes
HTML decimal┮
HTML hex┮
CSS\252Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u252E
JSON\u252E
Python\u252E
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT HEAVY AND LEFT DOWN LIGHT}by name
Java / C#\u252E
C / C++\u252Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{252E}
Go\u252E
Ruby\u252E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9518)
URL-encoded%E2%94%AEpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
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+252C┬Box Drawings Light Down and Horizontal U+252D┭Box Drawings Left Heavy and Right 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 U+2533┳Box Drawings Heavy Down and Horizontal U+2534┴Box Drawings Light Up and Horizontal