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

Code Point U+2544
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Right Up Heavy and Left down Light
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Right Up Heavy and Left 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 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2544
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002544
C/C++/Java Escape \u2544

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