╃
Box Drawing 68
- Unicode
- U+2543
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╃
- CSS
- \2543
The ╃ (Box Drawings Light Up And Heavy Horizontal) symbol is a legacy computing character originally designed for creating graphical user interfaces in text-based environments. It features a thin vertical line extending upwards that meets a thick horizontal line. Today, it is primarily used in retro ASCII art, terminal emulation, and decorative text borders.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9539
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "Box Drawings Light Up"
- HTML
- ╃
In Programming
This symbol is frequently used in command-line interfaces, shell scripting, and console applications to construct text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and data tables.
Tags
CLI
TUI
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
cross
dingbat
intersection
light up heavy horizontal
mixed weight
monospace
plain text
retro computing
table
terminal ui
text graphics
text-mode
unicode box drawing