U+2540 BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND DOWN HORIZONTAL LIGHT

The Unicode character U+2540, officially named BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND DOWN HORIZONTAL LIGHT, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Box Drawing block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as FORMS UP HEAVY AND DOWN HORIZONTAL LIGHT.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.