Box Drawings Left Up Heavy And Right Down Light Symbol
╃ is a box-drawing character that connects a heavy left-up segment to a light right-down segment.
U+2543
╃ (U+2543) is a box drawing symbol used to build borders and connectors in text. It’s useful for creating lightweight, consistent diagrams in plain text, terminals, and UI mockups.
Box Drawings Left Up Heavy And Right Down Light Symbol Meaning
╃ is a Unicode Box Drawing character: “LEFT UP HEAVY AND RIGHT DOWN LIGHT” (U+2543). Visually, it acts like a corner/diagonal connector where one side is heavier (left/up) and the other side is lighter (right/down). This can help you suggest direction or hierarchy in ASCII-style layouts, such as framing content or drawing structured connectors. Because it belongs to the Box Drawing block, its primary purpose is visual composition rather than a standalone semantic meaning. How it looks depends on your font’s support for box drawing glyphs; in monospace fonts it’s typically more reliable.
Common uses
- •Drawing borders or panel corners in plain text and README files
- •Creating diagonal connectors in terminal UIs and command-line status layouts
- •Designing ASCII/Unicode mockups for user interfaces and documentation
- •Building flowcharts or structured diagrams in chat messages
- •Styling separators in templated text outputs (e.g., logs and reports)
Examples
╃ Box Drawings Left Up Heavy Right Down Light
- ╃┌───╃───┐
- ╃Status: ╃ Done
- ╃Task A ╃ Task B
- ╃Form ╃ Input Section
- ╃Link ╃ Destination
Variations
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Technical codes
| Unicode | U+2543 | |
| HTML Entity | ╃ | |
| HTML Code | ╃ | |
| CSS | \2543 | |
| Alt Code | Alt + 9539 | |
| Decimal | 9539 |
How to type Box Drawings Left Up Heavy And Right Down Light Symbol (╃)
On Windows
Hold Alt and type 9539 on the numeric keypad. In Word, type 2543 then press Alt + X.
On Mac
Switch to the Unicode Hex Input keyboard, then hold Option and type 2543. Or press Control + Command + Space and search.
On Linux
Press Control + Shift + U, type 2543, then press Enter or Space.
Anywhere
Copy ╃ with the button above and paste it wherever you need it — this works on every device and in every app, with no keyboard shortcut to remember.
FAQ
What does the Box Drawings Left Up Heavy And Right Down Light symbol mean?
╃ is a Unicode Box Drawing character: “LEFT UP HEAVY AND RIGHT DOWN LIGHT” (U+2543). Visually, it acts like a corner/diagonal connector where one side is heavier (left/up) and the other side is lighter (right/down). This can help you suggest direction or hierarchy in ASCII-style layouts, such as framing content or drawing structured connectors. Because it belongs to the Box Drawing block, its primary purpose is visual composition rather than a standalone semantic meaning. How it looks depends on your font’s support for box drawing glyphs; in monospace fonts it’s typically more reliable.
What is the Unicode code point for ╃?
╃ is U+2543 (Box Drawings Left Up Heavy and Right Down Light).
How can I copy ╃ into HTML?
Use the HTML entity ╃ (also written as ╃).
What are the CSS and JavaScript escapes for ╃?
CSS: \2543. JavaScript: \u{2543}.
Why does ╃ look different in different places?
Box drawing characters depend on font support. Monospace fonts with full Unicode box-drawing coverage usually render them more consistently.