U+2548 "" Box Drawings Up Light and down Horizontal Heavy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Box Drawings Up Light and down Horizontal Heavy
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Up Light and down Horizontal Heavy

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