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U+2556 · BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE

Box Drawings Down Double and Left Single

  • CodepointU+2556
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE
  • Decimal9558
  • 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+2556 (╖) is BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE, 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 95 963 bytes
UTF-1625561 code unit
UTF-32000025564 bytes
HTML named╖named character reference
HTML decimal╖
HTML hex╖
CSS\2556in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2556
JSON\u2556
Python\u2556
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE}by name
Java / C#\u2556
C / C++\u2556universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2556}
Go\u2556
Ruby\u2556
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9558)
URL-encoded%E2%95%96percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2550═Box Drawings Double Horizontal U+2551║Box Drawings Double Vertical U+2552╒Box Drawings Down Single and Right Double U+2553╓Box Drawings Down Double and Right Single U+2554╔Box Drawings Double Down and Right U+2555╕Box Drawings Down Single and Left Double U+2557╗Box Drawings Double Down and Left U+2558╘Box Drawings Up Single and Right Double U+2559╙Box Drawings Up Double and Right Single U+255A╚Box Drawings Double Up and Right U+255B╛Box Drawings Up Single and Left Double U+255C╜Box Drawings Up Double and Left Single