U+257C— BOX DRAWING CHARACTER U+257C
Graphic character used for drawing borders, frames, and tables in terminal and console interfaces.
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BOX DRAWING CHARACTER U+257C
U+257C • Decimal 9596
PNG Background:
1-Click Multi-Language Developer Copy Palette (13 Formats)
Instant Clipboard ExportCharacter Glyph (Raw)
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Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+257C
Decimal Integer
9596
HTML Entity (Decimal)
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HTML Entity (Hex)
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JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u257C
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u257C
Python 3
\u257C
C / C++ / Rust
\u257C
CSS Content
\00257C
URL Percent-Encoded
%E2%95%BC
Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0xE2 0x95 0xBC
Base64 Stream
4pW8
Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications
Unicode 16.0 Standard| Unicode Plane | Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF |
| Unicode Block | Box Drawing (U+2500..U+257F) |
| General Category | Lo — Other Letter / Symbol |
| Bidirectional Class | L (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR |
| Unicode Version Introduced | Unicode 2.0 - 5.0 |
| UTF-8 Byte Stream | 0xE2 0x95 0xBC (3 Bytes) |
| UTF-16 Code Units | 0x257C |
| UTF-32 Hexadecimal | 0x0000257C |
Quick Character Summary
Glyph╼
Hex CodepointU+257C
Decimal ID9596
ScriptCommon
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 2.0 - 5.0
Device & Font Support
99.0% SupportApple (iOS / macOS)iOS 5.0+
Google (Android / Chrome)Android 4.0+
Microsoft (Windows)Windows 7+
Standard Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) character widely supported across all modern browsers.