╽
Box Drawing 126
- Unicode
- U+257D
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╽
- CSS
- \257D
The ╽ (Box Drawing Heavy Up and Light Down) symbol is a legacy typographical character used to construct text-based graphics and grids. Originating in early computing eras before modern graphical interfaces, it renders a vertical line with a thick upper half and a thin lower half. Today, it remains popular in command-line interfaces, retro ASCII art, and terminal design for drawing mixed-weight borders or connecting UI elements.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9598
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- HTML
- ╾
In Programming
In software development, this symbol is frequently used in console applications, command-line scripts, and text-based UIs to draw custom vertical borders and visualize mixed-weight directory tree structures.
Tags
CLI
U+257D
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
line segment
mixed weight line
retro terminal
table
terminal UI
text graphics
thick upper
unicode