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 |