╼
Box Drawings Light Left and Heavy Right
- Unicode
- U+257C
- Category
- Box Drawing
- 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
- In Word: type 257C, then press Alt + X. Other apps have no standard Windows shortcut for it — copy it from this page
- 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
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