╇
Box Drawings Down Light and Up Horizontal Heavy
- Unicode
- U+2547
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╇
- CSS
- \2547
The ╇ (Box Drawing Down Light and Up Horizontal Heavy) 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 horizontal line and a thick upward stroke, while only the downward stroke stays thin. 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
down light up horizontal heavy
intersection
mixed weight
monospace
retro computing
table
terminal ui
text graphics
thick cross
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