U+2576 "╶" Box Drawings Light Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
╶
U+2576 "╶" Box Drawings Light Right is a single horizontal line segment that extends to the right from a vertical starting point, belonging to the Box Drawing block used for creating simple text-based diagrams, tables, and borders in monospaced fonts. It represents the right half of a horizontal line, often combined with other box drawing characters to form corners, T-junctions, or continuous grid lines in plain text environments like terminal emulators or old computer interfaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2576 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Right |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2576 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002576 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2576 |
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 | Alphabetic |
| 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 |