U+257B "╻" Box Drawings Heavy Down Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+257B "╻" Box Drawings Heavy Down is a graphical symbol used in the box drawing set of characters to represent a vertical line segment drawn with a thick or heavy weight, specifically extending downward from a point. It is part of the broader box drawing block in Unicode, which allows users to create text based borders, tables, and diagrams in plain text environments. This character is defined in Unicode 1.1 and belongs to the range of 32 box drawing characters in the Unicode standard, many of which have both light and heavy variants for visual emphasis. Typographically, it serves to create a strong, continuous downward stroke when combined with other heavy box drawing characters in technical or retro computer interfaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+257B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Down |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy Down |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x257B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000257B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u257b |
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 |