╾
Box Drawing 127
- Unicode
- U+257E
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╾
- CSS
- \257E
The ╾ symbol, officially known as Box Drawings Light Left And Heavy Right, is a legacy computing character originally designed to create text-based borders, tables, and graphical interfaces. It features a continuous horizontal line that transitions from a thin stroke on the left to a thick stroke on the right. Today, while modern graphics have largely replaced text-based boxes, this symbol remains popular in ASCII art and kaomoji to represent objects like gun barrels, swords, or pointing sticks.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9596
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawings"
- HTML
- ╼
In Programming
Programmers use this symbol to design custom terminal user interfaces, command-line borders, or text-based progress bars that require varying line weights.
Tags
CLI
U+257E
ascii art
border
box drawing
dingbat
gun barrel
kaomoji
line segment
pointing stick
retro terminal
sword symbol
table
text art
unicode