U+2574 "╴" Box Drawings Light Left Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
╴
U+2574 "╴" Box Drawings Light Left is a monospaced graphical symbol used primarily in text based user interfaces and terminal displays to form the left side of a box or a horizontal line segment that connects to the left. As part of the box drawing block in Unicode, it represents a single pixel wide stroke extending leftward from a central point, and it is often combined with other box drawing characters such as U+2500 "─" for horizontal lines or U+2518 "┘" for corners to create continuous borders, grids, and diagrams in plain text environments. This character is typically rendered with fixed width and is widely supported across modern fonts and operating systems for legacy and retro computing applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2574 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Left |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Left |
| Block | Box Drawing |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ╴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ╴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x95 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2574 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002574 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2574 |