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U+251C · BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND RIGHT

Box Drawings Light Vertical and Right

  • CodepointU+251C
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND RIGHT
  • Decimal9500
  • 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+251C (├) is BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL 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 9C3 bytes
UTF-16251C1 code unit
UTF-320000251C4 bytes
HTML named├named character reference
HTML decimal├
HTML hex├
CSS\251Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u251C
JSON\u251C
Python\u251C
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND RIGHT}by name
Java / C#\u251C
C / C++\u251Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{251C}
Go\u251C
Ruby\u251C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9500)
URL-encoded%E2%94%9Cpercent-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+2523┣Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Right
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2516┖Box Drawings Up Heavy and Right Light U+2517┗Box Drawings Heavy Up and Right U+2518┘Box Drawings Light Up and Left U+2519┙Box Drawings Up Light and Left Heavy U+251A┚Box Drawings Up Heavy and Left Light U+251B┛Box Drawings Heavy Up and Left U+251D┝Box Drawings Vertical Light and Right Heavy U+251E┞Box Drawings Up Heavy and Right Down Light U+251F┟Box Drawings Down Heavy and Right Up Light U+2520┠Box Drawings Vertical Heavy and Right Light U+2521┡Box Drawings Down Light and Right Up Heavy U+2522┢Box Drawings Up Light and Right Down Heavy