U+256E "╮" Box Drawings Light Arc down and Left Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+256E "╮" Box Drawings Light Arc down and Left is a graphical symbol belonging to the Box Drawing block, designed for creating simple line-based diagrams and text user interfaces. It forms the upper right corner of a rounded box, depicting a curved segment that descends vertically before curving to the left. Composed of single, light lines, it is often paired with other arc and straight line box drawing characters to construct tables, borders, or flowcharts in plain text environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+256E
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Light Arc down and Left
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Light Arc down 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 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x256E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000256E
C/C++/Java Escape \u256e

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