U+2544 "╄" Box Drawings Right Up Heavy and Left down Light Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2544 "╄" Box Drawings Right Up Heavy and Left down Light is a specific glyph within the Box Drawing block, designed for creating text-based diagrams and tables. It forms a corner or intersection where the line extending to the right and upward is rendered with a thick, heavy stroke, while the line extending to the left and downward is drawn with a thin, light stroke. This asymmetry in line weight allows for the visual distinction of structural elements in a grid, such as highlighting a particular path or border in technical drawings, user interfaces, or ASCII art. As part of the broader Box Drawing set, it enables precise control over the appearance of ruled lines in plain text environments, filling the role of a junction that combines two different line thicknesses at a single point.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
╄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
╄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x95 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2544 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002544 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2544 |
Unicode Properties