U+2546 "╆" Box Drawings Right down Heavy and Left Up Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2546 "╆" Box Drawings Right down Heavy and Left Up Light is a member of the Box Drawing block, designed for creating visual diagrams and text-based borders in monospaced environments. Its name precisely describes its construction: the character features a heavy (thick) line extending to the right and downward from a central junction, while the line going to the left and upward is drawn with a lighter (thin) style. This specific combination of varying line weights is useful for indicating depth, emphasis, or directional flow in technical drawings, flowcharts, or terminal user interfaces, where the contrast between heavy and light strokes helps distinguish different parts of a structure. The shape is formed by joining these four directional segments at a central point, allowing it to connect seamlessly with adjacent box-drawing characters in a grid layout.

General Properties

Code Point U+2546
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Right down Heavy and Left Up Light
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Right down Heavy and Left Up 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 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2546
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002546
C/C++/Java Escape \u2546

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