╍
Box Drawing 78
- Unicode
- U+254D
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╍
- CSS
- \254D
The ╍ (Box Drawing Heavy Double Dash Horizontal) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used to construct tables, borders, and user interfaces in text-only terminal environments. It features a thick horizontal line broken into two prominent dashes. Today, it remains popular in ASCII art, command-line scripts, and plain-text documents as a stylish decorative divider.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 9549
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U then 254d
- HTML
- ╍
In Programming
Programmers use this symbol to design text-based user interfaces (TUIs), draw structured tables in console outputs, or create visually distinct console log dividers.
Tags
ASCII art
TUI character
U+254D
Unicode box drawing
border
box drawing
dingbat
double dash line
heavy
horizontal
horizontal line
line
plain text formatting
terminal separator
text divider
text-based UI