U+2571 "" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
╱
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x95 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2571
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002571
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2571