U+2543 "╃" Box Drawings Left Up Heavy and Right down Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2543 "╃" Box Drawings Left Up Heavy and Right down Light is a component of the Box Drawing block, designed for creating graphical text-based borders and charts. This specific character features a mixed weight design where the lines extending to the left and upward are thick or heavy, while the lines extending to the right and downward are thin or light, meeting at a central junction point. It is often used in terminal interfaces, technical diagrams, or old-school user interfaces to construct detailed boxes, table cells, or grids where varying line thickness helps visually distinguish different zones or structural elements.

General Properties

Code Point U+2543
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Left Up Heavy and Right down Light
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Left Up Heavy and Right down 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2543
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002543
C/C++/Java Escape \u2543

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other