U+237C "⍼" Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+237C "⍼" Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow is a technical symbol included in the Miscellaneous Technical block, designed to represent a specific type of electrical or schematic marking where a path makes a sharp turn and then descends in a zigzag pattern. Its visual form combines a right angle corner with a subsequent zigzag line pointing downward, and it has historically been associated with graphical notations in older engineering diagrams or computer standards, though it sees very limited use in modern plain text and remains largely obscure outside of specialized documentation about Unicode itself.

General Properties

Code Point U+237C
Version Added 3.2
Name Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow
Block Miscellaneous Technical
General Category Math Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⍼
HTML Hex Encoding ⍼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x8D 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x237C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000237C
C/C++/Java Escape \u237c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Math Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other