U+2556 BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE

The Unicode character U+2556, officially named BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND LEFT 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 LEFT 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.