╀
Box Drawing 65
- Unicode
- U+2540
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╀
- CSS
- \2540
The ╀ symbol is a box-drawing character used to represent a cross intersection featuring mixed heavy and light line weights. Originating from legacy text terminals and early operating systems like MS-DOS, these symbols were essential for rendering tables, window frames, and graphical borders in plain text environments. Today, this character remains highly useful for designing retro ASCII art and structuring visual data in command-line interfaces.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9536
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2540
- HTML
- ╀
In Programming
In programming, this character is frequently used to construct text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and format terminal outputs, such as tabular data grids or visual directory trees.
Tags
ASCII art
MS-DOS
TUI
border
box drawing
command-line
cross
dingbat
grid cross
heavy up
intersection
mixed line weight
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text-based interface
unicode box drawing