┰
Box Drawing 49
- Unicode
- U+2530
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┰
- CSS
- \2530
The ┰ symbol (Box Drawing Heavy Down And Light Horizontal) is a character historically used in terminal environments to create text-based user interfaces. It features a thin horizontal line intersected by a thick downward-pointing vertical line, forming a specialized T-junction. Today, it remains popular among programmers and ASCII artists for designing precise grid layouts, tables, and retro graphics in plain text files.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9520
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2530
- HTML
- ┰
In Programming
In programming and command-line interfaces, this symbol is primarily used to construct visual boundaries, complex tables, and folder tree hierarchies in console outputs.
Tags
ASCII border
CLI grid line
U+2530
border
box drawing
box drawing heavy down and light horizontal
dingbat
heavy down light horizontal
mixed weight t-junction
t-junction
table
terminal top junction
text UI character
thick vertical thin horizontal
top
unicode 2530
unicode box drawing