╼
Box Drawing 125
- Unicode
- U+257C
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╼
- CSS
- \257C
The ╼ symbol, formally known as the Box Drawing Light Left and Heavy Right character, is a legacy computing symbol featuring a horizontal line that shifts from thin to thick. Originating from early text-based user interfaces and terminal environments, it was designed to create intricate borders, tables, and frames in plain text. Today, it remains popular in ASCII art, command-line utilities, and retro-style text designs.
How to Type
- Windows
- Type 257C followed by Alt+X in Microsoft Word, or Win+. then search
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 257c
- HTML
- ╼
In Programming
This character is frequently used in text-based user interface libraries, such as ncurses, to build complex terminal borders, grids, and customized progress bars.
Tags
CLI
U+257C
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
line segment
mixed weight line
retro terminal
table
terminal UI
text graphics
thin to thick
unicode