U+2518 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND LEFT

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Decimal / Nº
9496
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2518, officially named BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND LEFT, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Box Drawing block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as FORMS LIGHT UP AND LEFT.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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9496 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 94 98 Copied!
UTF-16 25 18 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 18 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%94%98 Copied!
HTML hex reference ┘ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2518' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2518 Copied!
C and C++ \u2518 Copied!
C# \u2518 Copied!
CSS \002518 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9496) Copied!
Go \u2518 Copied!
JavaScript \u2518 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2518} Copied!
JSON \u2518 Copied!
Java \u2518 Copied!
Lua \u{2518} Copied!
Matlab char(9496) Copied!
Perl \x{2518} Copied!
PHP \u{2518} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2518' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2518} Copied!
Python \u2518 Copied!
Ruby \u{2518} Copied!
Rust \u{2518} Copied!