U+250C "┌" Box Drawings Light down and Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+250C "┌" Box Drawings Light down and Right is a fundamental element of the Box Drawing block, designed for creating simple visual borders and tables in plain text environments. It represents the corner where a vertical line extending downward meets a horizontal line extending to the right, using a standard light-weight line style. This character is especially valuable in command-line interfaces, technical documentation, and ASCII art, as it allows for the construction of neatly aligned boxes and grids without needing graphical rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+250C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light down and Right |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light down and Right |
| Block | Box Drawing |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ┌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ┌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x94 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x250C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000250C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u250c |