┷
Box Drawing 56
- Unicode
- U+2537
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┷
- CSS
- \2537
The ┷ (Box Drawing Heavy Up and Light Horizontal) symbol is a graphical character originally used in legacy computing to create text-based user interfaces. It forms an inverted 'T' intersection, combining a thick vertical line pointing upward with a thin horizontal base. Today, developers and ASCII artists use it to design structured tables, terminal layouts, and decorative borders in plain text environments.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9527
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing heavy up'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2537
- HTML
- ┷
In Programming
Developers frequently use this character when building command-line interfaces (CLIs) or outputting formatted console tables to create clear visual boundaries.
Tags
ASCII art upward line
CLI table character
U+2537
border
bottom
box drawing
box drawing heavy up and light horizontal
dingbat
heavy up light horizontal
inverted T junction
legacy computing border
t-junction
table
terminal bottom junction
thick vertical thin base
unicode 2537
unicode box drawing