Technical information

Symbol
NameBox drawings light vertical and right
Unicode numberU+251C
CategoryLight lines
DescriptionThe Unicode character ├, or U+251C, is known as "Box Drawings Light Vertical and Right". It belongs to the "Box Drawing" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic symbol that appears as a vertical line intersecting a rightward line, similar to the corner of a box. It's typically used in text-based user interfaces, diagrams, or in plain text to draw lines and boxes, or to create a simple graphic layout. The exact appearance of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity├
HTML Entity (hex)├
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%94%9C
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x94 0x9C
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010100:10011100
UTF-160x251C
UTF-320x0000251C

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u251C"
CSS Code\251C
JavaScript"\u251C"
Perl\x{251C}
Python 2u"\u251C"
Python 3\u251C
Ruby\u{251C}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ├ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9500;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\251C";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References