Technical information

Symbol
NameBox drawings heavy down
Unicode numberU+257B
CategoryLight and heavy half lines
DescriptionThe Unicode character ╻, or U+257B, is known as the "Box Drawings Heavy Down". It belongs to the "Box Drawing" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a vertical line, indicating a heavy downward line segment. It is commonly used in drawing tables or borders in plain text environments. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity╻
HTML Entity (hex)╻
URL Escape Code%E2%95%BB
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x95 0xBB
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010101:10111011
UTF-160x257B
UTF-320x0000257B

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u257B"
CSS Code\257B
JavaScript"\u257B"
Perl\x{257B}
Python 2u"\u257B"
Python 3\u257B
Ruby\u{257B}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ╻ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
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28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9595;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\257B";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References