U+256F "╯" Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Left Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+256F "╯" Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Left is a visual element from the Box Drawing block, designed to represent a curved corner segment that connects a horizontal line on its right side to a vertical line descending from its top. This particular glyph is commonly used in text-based diagrams and simple computer interfaces to create rounded or arched junctions, often appearing as part of a larger set of light line box-drawing characters. Its distinctive curve provides a softer alternative to sharp right-angle corners, making it useful for stylistic ASCII art or for visually indicating a path that bends upward and to the left within a grid layout.

General Properties

Code Point U+256F
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Left
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Light Arc 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 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x256F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000256F
C/C++/Java Escape \u256f

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