U+257C "╼" Box Drawings Light Left and Heavy Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+257C "╼" Box Drawings Light Left and Heavy Right is part of the Box Drawing block, designed for creating simple text-based diagrams and borders. It combines a thin vertical line on its left side with a thick vertical line on its right side, making it useful for representing transitions in line weight within a grid or table. This character helps visually differentiate sections or emphasize a boundary in contexts where ASCII art or terminal interfaces require both light and heavy line styles.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+257C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Left and Heavy Right |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Light Left and 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 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x257C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000257C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u257c |
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 |