U+2572 "" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left to Lower Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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

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