U+2541 "╁" Box Drawings down Heavy and Up Horizontal Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2541 "╁" Box Drawings down Heavy and Up Horizontal Light is a specific glyph within the Box Drawing block, designed for creating text-based diagrams and terminal interfaces. It is composed of a heavy vertical stroke extending downward, combined with a light horizontal stroke extending both left and right from the same junction. This particular weight pairing allows for visual distinction in flowcharts or tables where a downward branch from a vertical line is emphasized with a thicker line, while the connecting horizontal path remains lighter. As part of the broader set of box-drawing symbols, it helps delineate information in monospaced environments without relying on graphical images.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2541 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings down Heavy and Up Horizontal Light |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms down Heavy and Up 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 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2541 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002541 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2541 |