U+257E "╾" Box Drawings Heavy Left and Light Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+257E "╾" Box Drawings Heavy Left and Light Right is a visual symbol used in terminal interfaces and plain text diagrams to create borders or frames where a thick vertical or horizontal line on the left meets a thin line on the right, allowing for precise control over the weight of box edges in character-based graphics. It belongs to the Box Drawing block, which provides a set of single and double line segments for constructing tables, flowcharts, and other structural layouts without relying on graphical fonts. This specific character contrasts a heavy, bold line on its left side with a light, regular line on its right, making it useful for blending or transitioning between thick and thin borders in a unified design.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+257E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Left and Light Right |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy Left and Light 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x257E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000257E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u257e |
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 |