┅
Box Drawing 6
- Unicode
- U+2505
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┅
- CSS
- \2505
The ┅ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal, is a thick, dashed line consisting of three segments. Originally introduced in early computing to build text-based user interfaces and data grids, it remains highly useful today. You'll frequently see it used as a decorative text divider, in ASCII art, or within command-line applications to draw bold, structured borders.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9477
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2505
- HTML
- ┅
In Programming
In programming, this character is widely used in console outputs and text-based UI libraries (like ncurses) to render robust dashed borders. Developers also use it inside multiline code comments to create clean, prominent visual dividers between logical sections.
Tags
ASCII bold dash
Unicode dashed line
bold dash horizontal
border
box drawing
heavy
heavy dashed divider
heavy triple dash
horizontal
line
terminal heavy border
text thick separator
thick dashed line