U+2549 "╉" Box Drawings Right Light and Left Vertical Heavy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2549 "╉" Box Drawings Right Light and Left Vertical Heavy is a graphic symbol used in text-based user interfaces and terminal applications for creating single-line and double-line box diagrams, combining a light horizontal line extending to the right with a heavy vertical line on the left side. This character belongs to the Box Drawing block of Unicode, which provides a set of predefined line segments and corners for constructing grid layouts, tables, and borders without relying on graphical rendering. In practice, it is often employed in older computer systems, command-line tools, and plain-text formatting where precise alignment of ASCII-style art is needed, allowing users to merge different line weights within the same diagram. The visual appearance of "╉" depends entirely on the font being used, but it consistently represents a junction where a thinner rightward stroke meets a thicker left-side vertical bar.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
╉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
╉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x95 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2549 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002549 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2549 |
Unicode Properties