╸
Box Drawing 121
- Unicode
- U+2578
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╸
- CSS
- \2578
The ╸ (Box Drawing Heavy Left) symbol is a structural text character originating from legacy computing eras to help construct text-based user interfaces. It visually represents a thick horizontal line extending from the center of the character space to the left edge. Today, developers and digital artists use it extensively in command-line interfaces, terminal emulators, and ASCII art to draw precise borders, tree diagrams, and progress bars.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9592
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing heavy left"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2578
- HTML
- ╸
In Programming
Frequently utilized in console applications and shell scripts to render custom progress bars, visual dividers, or tree-like directory structures directly within the terminal.
Tags
CLI
U+2578
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
line segment
plain text
progress bar
table
terminal UI
text graphics
thick line
unicode