Box Drawing 102

Unicode
U+2565
Category
Dingbats
HTML Entity
╥
CSS
\2565
The ╥ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Down Double and Horizontal Single character, was originally used in legacy text-based computing to draw tables, grids, and user interfaces. Today, this distinctive shape is most famous across social media and messaging apps for its use in kaomoji (Japanese text emoticons), specifically acting as heavily crying or streaming tear eyes in faces like (╥﹏╥). It remains a staple in both retro ASCII art and modern digital expressions of sadness.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+210 or Alt+9573
macOS
Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+U then 2565
HTML
╥ or ╥

In Programming

Programmers use this character in command-line interfaces (CLI) and terminal applications to construct stylized text-based UI elements, borders, and data tables.

Tags

(╥﹏╥) ascii art border box drawing box drawing down double horizontal single copy paste symbol crying eyes emoticon crying kaomoji dingbat dos character double line frame kaomoji eyes retro computing sad face symbol table terminal table text emoticon unicode box character

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