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U+250C · BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND RIGHT

Box Drawings Light Down and Right

  • CodepointU+250C
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND RIGHT
  • Decimal9484
  • BlockBox Drawing (U+2500–U+257F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+250C (┌) is BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND RIGHT, a symbol in the Box Drawing block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ┌

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 94 8C3 bytes
UTF-16250C1 code unit
UTF-320000250C4 bytes
HTML named┌named character reference
HTML decimal┌
HTML hex┌
CSS\250Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u250C
JSON\u250C
Python\u250C
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND RIGHT}by name
Java / C#\u250C
C / C++\u250Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{250C}
Go\u250C
Ruby\u250C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9484)
URL-encoded%E2%94%8Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+250F┏Box Drawings Heavy Down and Right
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2506┆Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical U+2507┇Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical U+2508┈Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal U+2509┉Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal U+250A┊Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical U+250B┋Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical U+250D┍Box Drawings Down Light and Right Heavy U+250E┎Box Drawings Down Heavy and Right Light U+250F┏Box Drawings Heavy Down and Right U+2510┐Box Drawings Light Down and Left U+2511┑Box Drawings Down Light and Left Heavy U+2512┒Box Drawings Down Heavy and Left Light