╾
Box Drawings Heavy Left and Light Right
- Unicode
- U+257E
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╾
- CSS
- \257E
The ╾ symbol, officially known as Box Drawings Heavy Left And Light 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 thick stroke on the left to a thin 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+9598
- 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
Related Symbols
─
Box Drawings Light Horizontal
━
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal
│
Box Drawings Light Vertical
┃
Box Drawings Heavy Vertical
┄
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Horizontal
┅
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal
┆
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical
┇
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical
┈
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┉
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┊
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical
┋
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical