U+257F "╿" Box Drawings Heavy Up and Light Down Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
╿
U+257F "╿" Box Drawings Heavy Up and Light Down is a graphic symbol from the Box Drawing block, designed to create borders and frames in text interfaces. It features a heavy vertical stroke extended upward and a light vertical stroke extended downward, connecting at the same horizontal position to form a single vertical line with a noticeable thickness change. This character is primarily used in technical diagrams, terminal applications, and plain text formatting where visual distinction between line weights is needed to indicate hierarchy or structural breaks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+257F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Box Drawings Heavy Up and Light Down |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Forms Heavy Up and Light 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 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x257F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000257F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u257f |
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 |