How do I type the ╱ box drawings light diagonal upper right to lower left symbol?

On Windows, type 2571 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 2571. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for ╱?

Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right To Lower Left is U+2571. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

What kind of character is ╱?

Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right To Lower Left is filed under Other symbol in the Box Drawing block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.

U+2571 · Other symbol

Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right To Lower Left Symbol ╱

╱ is box drawings light diagonal upper right to lower left, U+2571, in the Box Drawing block. It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Other symbol.

Also known as

Unicode 1.0 called this character forms light diagonal upper right to lower left. The standard renamed it later, but documents, fonts and font-editing tools from that era still use the old name.

What Unicode says about ╱

not intended for mathematical symbol \diagup

— annotation from the Unicode Standard, NamesList.txt

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2571`
HTML hex	`╱`
HTML decimal	`╱`
CSS	`\2571`
JavaScript	`\u{2571}`
Python	`\U00002571`
Java / C#	`\u2571`
Rust	`\u{2571}`
Swift	`\u{2571}`
PHP	`\u{2571}`
URL encoded	`%E2%95%B1`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 95 B1`
UTF-16 bytes	`2571`
Base64	`4pWx`
Decimal	`9585`
Category	Other symbol (So)
Introduced	Unicode 1.1

Will ╱ survive being pasted?

Normalisation. Yes. ╱ is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
Legacy encodings. ╱ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.

Unicode cross-references

The standard points readers of ╱ at these characters — usually because they look alike, or because one is the correct choice where the other is often used by mistake.

Other diagonal characters

Unicode names 5 characters ending in “diagonal”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.

Nearby in Box Drawing

The line-drawing characters that terminal interfaces were built from before graphics. Single, double, heavy and rounded corners, in every junction combination — still the standard way to draw a table in a monospace font.

All 128 characters in Box Drawing →

How to type ╱

Windows	Type `2571` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “box drawings light diagonal upper right to lower left”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `2571`, press `Enter`
HTML	`╱`

About Unicode’s Other symbol category

Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.

Frequently asked questions

How do I type the ╱ box drawings light diagonal upper right to lower left symbol?: On Windows, type 2571 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 2571. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for ╱?: Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right To Lower Left is U+2571. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
What kind of character is ╱?: Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right To Lower Left is filed under Other symbol in the Box Drawing block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.