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

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