Technical information

Symbol
NameBox drawings light down and right
Unicode numberU+250C
CategoryLight lines
DescriptionThe Unicode character ┌, or U+250C, is known as the "Box Drawings Light Down 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 representation of a light line moving downwards and towards the right, typically used to create a top-left corner in box drawing. It's often used in text user interfaces, diagrams, or plain text graphics to outline tables, frames, or other rectangular structures. The specific appearance and usage 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%8C
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x94 0x8C
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010100:10001100
UTF-160x250C
UTF-320x0000250C

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u250C"
CSS Code\250C
JavaScript"\u250C"
Perl\x{250C}
Python 2u"\u250C"
Python 3\u250C
Ruby\u{250C}

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>&#9484;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\250C";
}

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