U+257C "╼" Box Drawings Light Left and Heavy Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

╼
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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.

╻ Previous U+257B Box Drawings Heavy Down ╽ Next U+257D Box Drawings Light Up and Heavy Down

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