U+257F "" Box Drawings Heavy Up and Light Down Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Box Drawings Heavy Up and Light Down
Unicode 1.0 Name
Forms Heavy Up and Light Down

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