U+2572 "╲" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left to Lower Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2572 "╲" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left to Lower Right is a graphic symbol used primarily in text-based user interfaces and diagrams to draw a diagonal line slanting from the top left corner down to the bottom right corner, with a uniform, thin stroke weight. It belongs to the Box Drawing block, which provides a set of characters for creating simple line art and borders in monospaced fonts, often employed in legacy computing environments, terminal applications, and ASCII art. This specific diagonal is frequently paired with its counterpart, U+2571, to form X shapes or more complex grid patterns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2572 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left to Lower Right |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Diagonal Upper Left to Lower 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 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2572 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002572 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2572 |