U+2548 "╈" Box Drawings Up Light and down Horizontal Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
╈
U+2548 "╈" Box Drawings Up Light and down Horizontal Heavy is a graphic symbol from the Box Drawing block, specifically designed for creating text-based diagrams and borders. This character features a vertical line that is light on its upward segment and transitions to a horizontal line that is heavy, connecting at the top left of the glyph. Its primary function is to represent the intersection of a thin vertical line coming from below with a thick horizontal line extending to the right, making it useful for rendering complex table structures or terminal interfaces where varying line weights visually distinguish different sections.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2548 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Up Light and down Horizontal Heavy |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Up Light and down 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 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2548 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002548 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2548 |