U+2554 "" Box Drawings Double down and Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2554 "" Box Drawings Double down and Right is a graphic symbol used in text based user interfaces and early computer art to create the top left corner of a box with a thick double line border. It forms part of the Box Drawing block, a set of characters designed to allow for the construction of simple rectangular borders and grids within a monospaced font environment. This particular glyph is composed of a double horizontal line extending to the right from its origin and a double vertical line extending downward, seamlessly joining at a right angle. Its primary function is to serve as a junction piece, specifically the starting point for drawing the upper left corner of a double lined box or frame in plain text.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2554
Name
Box Drawings Double down and Right
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Double down and Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
╔
HTML Hex Encoding
╔
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x95 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2554
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002554
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2554