Technical information

Symbol
NameBox drawings light down and horizontal
Unicode numberU+252C
CategoryLight lines
DescriptionThe Unicode character ┬, or U+252C, is known as the "Box Drawings Light Down and Horizontal". It belongs to the "Box Drawing" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphical symbol that represents a light line drawn down and horizontally, forming a 'T' shape. It is often used in creating box drawings or simple graphics within text, for instance in ASCII art or in text-based user interface design. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity┬
HTML Entity (hex)┬
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%94%AC
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x94 0xAC
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010100:10101100
UTF-160x252C
UTF-320x0000252C

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u252C"
CSS Code\252C
JavaScript"\u252C"
Perl\x{252C}
Python 2u"\u252C"
Python 3\u252C
Ruby\u{252C}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ┬ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9516;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\252C";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References