╅
Box Drawing 70
- Unicode
- U+2545
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╅
- CSS
- \2545
The ╅ (Box Drawings Right Heavy And Left Up Light) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used to construct graphical user interfaces in text-only environments. It forms an upward-facing T-intersection where the right-pointing line is thick, while the left and upward lines are thin. Programmers and text-art enthusiasts still use it alongside other box-drawing characters to create terminal UI borders, intricate ASCII art, and text-based tables.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9541
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawings right heavy"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2545
- HTML
- ╅
In Programming
This character is primarily used in command-line interface (CLI) development, such as with the ncurses library, to render complex, multi-weight grid lines and table boundaries directly within the terminal.
Tags
CLI
T-intersection
TUI
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
cross
dingbat
intersection
left up light
mixed weight
monospace
retro computing
right heavy
table
terminal ui
text graphics
unicode box drawing