╹
Box Drawing 122
- Unicode
- U+2579
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╹
- CSS
- \2579
The ╹ (Box Drawing Heavy Up) symbol is a text-based graphic character originally used in legacy computing systems to build terminal user interfaces. It represents a thick, upward-facing vertical line segment occupying the top half of a text cell. While modern software relies on graphical interfaces, this symbol remains widely used in ASCII art, command-line aesthetics, and creative text emoticons.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9593
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing heavy up"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 2579 Space
- HTML
- ╹
In Programming
Commonly used in text-based user interfaces (TUIs), terminal emulators, and console applications to render thick borders, charts, or grid structures.
Tags
CLI
U+2579
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
line segment
plain text
table
terminal UI
text emoticon
text graphics
thick line
unicode