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U+257E CHARACTER

BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY LEFT AND LIGHT RIGHT

Quick Facts

Unicode Name BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY LEFT AND LIGHT RIGHT
Code Point U+257E
Decimal Value 9598
General Category Other Symbol (So) →
Unicode Block Box Drawing →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 95 BE
UTF-16 Code Unit 257E
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000257E
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 25 7E LE: 7E 25
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 25 7E LE: 7E 25 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ╾
HTML Hexadecimal ╾
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00257E
JavaScript (ES6) \u257E
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u257E
JSON Escape \u257E
Python \u257E
PHP "\u{257E}"
Java "\u257E"
C / C++ "\u257E"
Rust '\u{257e}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%95%BE

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+257E across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A ╾ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A ╾ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A ╾ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A ╾ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY LEFT AND LIGHT RIGHT

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+257E

Related Characters & Collections

Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY LEFT AND LIGHT RIGHT symbol library.
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