U+2555 BOX DRAWINGS DOWN SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE

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Decimal / Nº
9557
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+2555, officially named BOX DRAWINGS DOWN SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE, 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 SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE.

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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9557 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 95 95 Copied!
UTF-16 25 55 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 55 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%95%95 Copied!
HTML hex reference ╕ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2555' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2555 Copied!
C and C++ \u2555 Copied!
C# \u2555 Copied!
CSS \002555 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9557) Copied!
Go \u2555 Copied!
JavaScript \u2555 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2555} Copied!
JSON \u2555 Copied!
Java \u2555 Copied!
Lua \u{2555} Copied!
Matlab char(9557) Copied!
Perl \x{2555} Copied!
PHP \u{2555} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2555' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2555} Copied!
Python \u2555 Copied!
Ruby \u{2555} Copied!
Rust \u{2555} Copied!