U+2557 "" Box Drawings Double down and Left Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2557 "" Box Drawings Double down and Left is a graphical glyph used in text based user interfaces and code page art to create borders or frames with a heavy double lined style. It specifically represents the top right corner of a box where a thick double horizontal line meets a thick double vertical line on its right side, extending downward and to the left. This character is part of the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which was derived from older character sets like IBM code page 437, and it is commonly employed in legacy software, terminal applications, and simple diagrams to visually separate sections of text with a clear, structured boundary.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2557
Name
Box Drawings Double down and Left
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Double down and Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
╗
HTML Hex Encoding
╗
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x95 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2557
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002557
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2557