U+2574 "" Box Drawings Light Left Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2574 "" Box Drawings Light Left is a monospaced graphical symbol used primarily in text based user interfaces and terminal displays to form the left side of a box or a horizontal line segment that connects to the left. As part of the box drawing block in Unicode, it represents a single pixel wide stroke extending leftward from a central point, and it is often combined with other box drawing characters such as U+2500 "─" for horizontal lines or U+2518 "┘" for corners to create continuous borders, grids, and diagrams in plain text environments. This character is typically rendered with fixed width and is widely supported across modern fonts and operating systems for legacy and retro computing applications.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2574
Name
Box Drawings Light Left
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Light Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
╴
HTML Hex Encoding
╴
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x95 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2574
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002574
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2574