┯
Box Drawings Down Light and Horizontal Heavy
- Unicode
- U+252F
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┯
- CSS
- \252F
The ┯ symbol is a box-drawing character featuring a heavy horizontal line intersected by a downward-pointing light vertical line. Originally created for legacy text-based computing systems to draw user interfaces and tables, it is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block. Today, developers and retro-computing enthusiasts use it to construct ASCII art, format command-line interfaces, and create structured terminal menus.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9519
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 252F
- HTML
- ┯
In Programming
Programmers use this symbol to design text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and print formatted tables directly within terminal applications. It helps create clear, structured grid boundaries without relying on graphical user interface (GUI) elements.
Tags
ASCII border character
CLI table top edge
U+252F
border
box drawing
box drawing down light and horizontal heavy
command line border
dingbat
heavy horizontal light down
mixed weight t-junction
plain text table
t-junction
table
terminal t-junction
text UI divider
top
unicode 252F
unicode box drawing
Related Symbols
─
Box Drawings Light Horizontal
━
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal
│
Box Drawings Light Vertical
┃
Box Drawings Heavy Vertical
┄
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Horizontal
┅
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal
┆
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical
┇
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical
┈
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┉
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┊
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical
┋
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical