U+2540 "╀" Box Drawings Up Heavy and down Horizontal Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2540 "╀" Box Drawings Up Heavy and down Horizontal Light is a special typographic symbol used in technical diagrams and text-based interfaces to represent the right-angled intersection of a thick vertical line moving upward with a thin horizontal line passing to its left and right. This character is part of the Box Drawing block, which provides a set of pseudographic symbols for creating simple line art and borders in monospaced fonts. Its specific design combines heavy weight in the upward stroke with light weight in the horizontal bar, allowing it to convey clear visual hierarchy in technical drawings or plain text formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2540 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Up Heavy and down Horizontal Light |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Up Heavy and down Horizontal Light |
| Block | Box Drawing |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ╀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ╀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x95 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2540 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002540 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2540 |