U+2528 BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL HEAVY AND LEFT LIGHT

The Unicode character U+2528, officially named BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL HEAVY AND LEFT LIGHT, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Box Drawing block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as FORMS VERTICAL HEAVY AND LEFT LIGHT.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.