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Box Drawings Down Double and Left Single HTML entity ╖
╖ is the HTML entity for Box Drawings Down Double and Left Single ╖ (U+2556). Copy ╖, ╖ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
╖- Code point
- U+2556
- Unicode name
- BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE
- Block
- Box Drawing
- Category
- Other symbol (So)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ╖Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ╖Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ╖Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2556";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2556"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2556"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%95%96Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 95 963 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 25561 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
╖ writes U+2556 (Box Drawings Down Double and Left Single), a symbol from the Unicode Box Drawing block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. Box drawing and block characters only line up in a monospaced font, such as inside <pre> or <code>.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).