U+250C "┌" Box Drawings Light down and Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other