Unicode Character "╲" (U+2572)

The character ╲ (Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left To Lower Right) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2572. It is encoded in the Box Drawing block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ╲.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left To Lower Right
Unicode Codepoint U+2572
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Box Drawing
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+2572 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ╲
HTML (hex) ╲
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%95%B2
CSS \002572
JavaScript, JSON \u2572
C, C++, Java \u2572
Python \u2572
Rust \u{2572}
Ruby \u2572

How to type "╲"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 5 7 2. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 5 7 2. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ╲
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ╲
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ╲
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x95 0xB2
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2572
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002572

References