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U+2571 · BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT

Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left

  • CodepointU+2571
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT
  • Decimal9585
  • 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+2571 (╱) is BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT, 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 B13 bytes
UTF-1625711 code unit
UTF-32000025714 bytes
HTML decimal╱
HTML hex╱
CSS\2571in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2571
JSON\u2571
Python\u2571
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT}by name
Java / C#\u2571
C / C++\u2571universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2571}
Go\u2571
Ruby\u2571
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9585)
URL-encoded%E2%95%B1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+256B╫Box Drawings Vertical Double and Horizontal Single U+256C╬Box Drawings Double Vertical and Horizontal U+256D╭Box Drawings Light Arc Down and Right U+256E╮Box Drawings Light Arc Down and Left U+256F╯Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Left U+2570╰Box Drawings Light Arc Up and Right U+2572╲Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left to Lower Right U+2573╳Box Drawings Light Diagonal Cross U+2574╴Box Drawings Light Left U+2575╵Box Drawings Light Up U+2576╶Box Drawings Light Right U+2577╷Box Drawings Light Down