╇
Box Drawing 72
- Unicode
- U+2547
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╇
- CSS
- \2547
The ╇ (Box Drawing Heavy Vertical and Light Horizontal) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used in text-based user interfaces to draw structured grids and tables. It specifically represents a cross intersection featuring a thick vertical line intersecting a thin horizontal line. Today, it remains useful for creating ASCII art, terminal UI borders, and decorative text layouts where standard graphical lines are not available.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9543
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2547
- HTML
- ╇
In Programming
This symbol is frequently used in command-line interface (CLI) applications and text-based UI libraries, such as Ncurses, to render structured table intersections and window borders.
Tags
CLI
TUI
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
cross
dingbat
heavy vertical light horizontal
intersection
mixed weight
monospace
retro computing
table
terminal ui
text graphics
thick cross
unicode box drawing