U+2578 "╸" Box Drawings Heavy Left Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2578 "╸" Box Drawings Heavy Left is a graphic symbol used primarily in text based user interfaces, terminal emulators, and plain text diagrams to represent the left side of a box or border with a thick or heavy line weight. It is part of the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which was designed to allow the creation of simple rectangular and line art structures using monospaced fonts, and it is typically paired with other heavy or light box drawing characters to form complete borders. Despite its visual simplicity, this character serves a functional role in legacy computing contexts where graphical rendering is limited, enabling clear visual separation of content areas without relying on modern graphics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2578 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Left |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2578 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002578 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2578 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |