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U+252C CHARACTER

BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL

Quick Facts

Unicode Name BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL
Code Point U+252C
Decimal Value 9516
General Category Other Symbol (So) →
Unicode Block Box Drawing →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 94 AC
UTF-16 Code Unit 252C
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000252C
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 25 2C LE: 2C 25
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 25 2C LE: 2C 25 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ┬
HTML Hexadecimal ┬
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00252C
JavaScript (ES6) \u252C
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u252C
JSON Escape \u252C
Python \u252C
PHP "\u{252C}"
Java "\u252C"
C / C++ "\u252C"
Rust '\u{252c}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%94%AC

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+252C across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A ┬ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A ┬ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A ┬ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A ┬ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+252C

Related Characters & Collections

Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL symbol library.
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