U+2570 "╰" Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2570 "╰" Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Right is a graphic symbol used in text-based user interfaces and terminal applications to create smooth, curved corners in box-drawing diagrams, particularly representing the lower-left corner of a box where a horizontal line meets a vertical line with a light, unbroken arc. It belongs to the Box Drawing block of Unicode, which provides a standardized set of characters for forming simple monochrome shapes and borders without relying on specialized graphics. This specific character, along with its counterparts for other arc directions, enables the construction of rounded or stylized outlines in plain text, such as in ASCII art, software menus, or data flow charts, where a less rigid, more organic appearance is desired compared to standard right-angle corners.

General Properties

Code Point U+2570
Version Added 1.1
Name Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Right
Unicode 1.0 Name Forms Light Arc Up 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 0x95 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2570
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002570
C/C++/Java Escape \u2570

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