U+2543 "" Box Drawings Left Up Heavy and Right down Light Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2543 "" Box Drawings Left Up Heavy and Right down Light is a component of the Box Drawing block, designed for creating graphical text-based borders and charts. This specific character features a mixed weight design where the lines extending to the left and upward are thick or heavy, while the lines extending to the right and downward are thin or light, meeting at a central junction point. It is often used in terminal interfaces, technical diagrams, or old-school user interfaces to construct detailed boxes, table cells, or grids where varying line thickness helps visually distinguish different zones or structural elements.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2543
Name
Box Drawings Left Up Heavy and Right down Light
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Left Up Heavy and Right down Light

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
╃
HTML Hex Encoding
╃
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x95 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2543
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002543
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2543