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

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Decimal / Nº
9518
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+252E, officially named BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT HEAVY AND LEFT DOWN 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 RIGHT HEAVY AND LEFT DOWN 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.

Representations & Encodings

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9518 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 94 AE Copied!
UTF-16 25 2E Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 2E Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%94%AE Copied!
HTML hex reference ┮ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'252E' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u252E Copied!
C and C++ \u252e Copied!
C# \u252e Copied!
CSS \00252E Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9518) Copied!
Go \u252e Copied!
JavaScript \u252E Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{252e} Copied!
JSON \u252E Copied!
Java \u252E Copied!
Lua \u{252E} Copied!
Matlab char(9518) Copied!
Perl \x{252E} Copied!
PHP \u{252e} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\252E' Copied!
PowerShell `u{252E} Copied!
Python \u252e Copied!
Ruby \u{252e} Copied!
Rust \u{252e} Copied!