U+257B "╻" Box Drawings Heavy Down Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Box Drawings Heavy Down
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Heavy Down
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common