U+2547 "╇" Box Drawings down Light and Up Horizontal Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2547 "╇" Box Drawings down Light and Up Horizontal Heavy is a graphic symbol used in text-based box-drawing art, combining a thin vertical line going downward from the junction point with a thick horizontal line extending both left and right across the top of the character. It belongs to the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which was standardized to replicate terminal and text mode user interfaces. This character is particularly useful for creating weighted borders or diagrams where different line thicknesses convey hierarchy or visual separation. Its design follows the grid-based alignment of box drawing characters, ensuring proper tiling in monospaced fonts without gaps between adjacent cells.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2547 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings down Light and Up Horizontal Heavy |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms down Light and Up Horizontal Heavy |
| 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 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2547 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002547 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2547 |