U+257A "╺" Box Drawings Heavy Right Unicode Character

U+257A "╺" Box Drawings Heavy Right is a graphical symbol used in text based interfaces and legacy computing systems to create box like borders and diagrams with a distinct heavy or thick line weight. Specifically, it represents a horizontal line segment that extends to the right from a starting point, often serving as the right facing portion of a larger box drawing composed of heavy lines. This character is part of the Box Drawing block in Unicode, which standardizes a set of line and corner glyphs originally popularized by IBM’s code page 437 for terminal and DOS applications. As a monospaced glyph, it aligns precisely with adjacent box drawing characters to form continuous borders, making it useful for creating structured visual layouts, such as tables or flowcharts, in plain text environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+257A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Box Drawings Heavy Right
Unicode 1.0 Name	Forms Heavy Right
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 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x257A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000257A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u257a

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