U+2542 "╂" Box Drawings Vertical Heavy and Horizontal Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
╂
U+2542 "╂" Box Drawings Vertical Heavy and Horizontal Light is a box-drawing glyph used in terminal interfaces and text-based diagrams to create grid lines with different stroke weights. Its design features a heavy vertical line intersecting a light horizontal line, allowing it to denote a junction where a thick column meets a thinner row in a table or chart. This character is part of the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which provides a standardized set of symbols for constructing visual structures in plain text without relying on graphical rendering. Programmers and technical writers might use U+2542 in command-line applications or documentation to exactly specify line thickness, ensuring clarity in formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2542 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Vertical Heavy and Horizontal Light |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Vertical Heavy and 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 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2542 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002542 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2542 |