U+2553 BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND RIGHT SINGLE

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Decimal / Nº
9555
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+2553, officially named BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND RIGHT SINGLE, 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 DOWN DOUBLE AND RIGHT SINGLE.

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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9555 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 95 93 Copied!
UTF-16 25 53 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 53 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%95%93 Copied!
HTML hex reference ╓ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2553' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2553 Copied!
C and C++ \u2553 Copied!
C# \u2553 Copied!
CSS \002553 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9555) Copied!
Go \u2553 Copied!
JavaScript \u2553 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2553} Copied!
JSON \u2553 Copied!
Java \u2553 Copied!
Lua \u{2553} Copied!
Matlab char(9555) Copied!
Perl \x{2553} Copied!
PHP \u{2553} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2553' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2553} Copied!
Python \u2553 Copied!
Ruby \u{2553} Copied!
Rust \u{2553} Copied!