U+257C

BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT LEFT AND HEAVY RIGHT

So — Other Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
9596

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT LEFT AND HEAVY RIGHT in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E2 95 BC 226 149 188 3
UTF-16 LE 7C 25 124 37 2
UTF-16 BE 25 7C 37 124 2
UTF-32 LE 7C 25 00 00 124 37 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 25 7C 0 0 37 124 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
╼
╼
\257C
\u257C
%E2%95%BC
\u257c
9596

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
95
·
Byte 3
1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0
BC
UTF-8: E2 95 BC · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+257C

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ON — Other Neutral

Nearby Characters in Box Drawing