U+2571 "╱" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2571 "╱" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left is a graphical symbol that belongs to the Box Drawing block within the Unicode standard, intended for creating simple text-based diagrams, charts, and borders. It represents a light line that slopes from the upper right corner down to the lower left corner, forming a diagonal stroke that is commonly used alongside other box drawing characters to build grids, corners, or shaded patterns in monospaced text environments. This character does not convey a specific text meaning but serves as a visual element for low resolution and terminal based interfaces, where precise alignment and character spacing allow it to simulate angled lines for technical or decorative purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2571 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower 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 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2571 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002571 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2571 |