U+255C BOX DRAWINGS UP DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE

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Decimal / Nº
9564
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+255C, officially named BOX DRAWINGS UP 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 UP 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.

Representations & Encodings

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9564 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 95 9C Copied!
UTF-16 25 5C Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 5C Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%95%9C Copied!
HTML hex reference ╜ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'255C' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u255C Copied!
C and C++ \u255c Copied!
C# \u255c Copied!
CSS \00255C Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9564) Copied!
Go \u255c Copied!
JavaScript \u255C Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{255c} Copied!
JSON \u255C Copied!
Java \u255C Copied!
Lua \u{255C} Copied!
Matlab char(9564) Copied!
Perl \x{255C} Copied!
PHP \u{255c} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\255C' Copied!
PowerShell `u{255C} Copied!
Python \u255c Copied!
Ruby \u{255c} Copied!
Rust \u{255c} Copied!