U+255D "╝" Box Drawings Double Up and Left Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
╝
U+255D "╝" Box Drawings Double Up and Left is a typographic symbol used for creating framed or bordered structures in text based interfaces, representing the corner where a double line continues upward and to the left. It is part of the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which provides a set of line and corner elements for forming simple graphical layouts without graphics. This specific character, when combined with other box drawing glyphs like U+2550 for horizontal double lines and U+2551 for vertical double lines, enables users to construct enclosed rectangular shapes or sections in plain text environments such as terminals, code comments, or ASCII art.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+255D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Double Up and Left |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Double Up and Left |
| 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 0x95 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x255D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000255D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u255d |