━
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal
- Unicode
- U+2501
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ━
- CSS
- \2501
The ━ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Heavy Horizontal character, originates from early text-based computing where it was used to build graphical user interfaces in terminal environments. Today, it remains a staple for creating ASCII art, designing terminal UI borders, and adding thick, stylized divider lines to social media bios or plain text documents.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9473
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing heavy"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2501
- HTML
- ━
In Programming
Developers frequently use this symbol in command-line interface (CLI) applications and terminal scripts to draw sturdy UI borders, separate log sections, or construct text-based progress bars.
Tags
ASCII art thick line
bold horizontal line
border
box drawing
copy paste thick line
heavy
heavy line Unicode
horizontal
line
plain-text border
social media divider
terminal UI design
text divider bold
thick horizontal line
Related Symbols
─
Box Drawings Light 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
┌
Box Drawings Light Down and Right