╊
Box Drawing 75
- Unicode
- U+254A
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╊
- CSS
- \254A
The ╊ (Box Drawing Left Heavy And Right Vertical Light) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used to construct text-based user interfaces and grids. Originating from early character-cell terminals and MS-DOS environments, it represents a cross-shaped intersection where the left-pointing line is thick, while the top, bottom, and right lines are thin. Today, developers and retro-computing enthusiasts still use it in command-line interfaces, ASCII art, and terminal dashboards to draw structured tables and geometric patterns.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9546
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 254A
- HTML
- ╊
In Programming
In programming, this symbol is primarily used in command-line applications and text-based user interfaces (TUIs) to format tabular data or render box-drawn graphics. It is often utilized alongside libraries that generate terminal grids, such as ncurses in C or rich in Python.
Tags
CLI
TUI
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
cross
dingbat
intersection
left heavy right light
mixed weight cross
monospace
retro computing
table
terminal ui
text graphics
thick left arm
unicode box drawing