╿
Box Drawings Heavy Up and Light Down
- Unicode
- U+257F
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╿
- CSS
- \257F
The ╿ (Box Drawing Heavy Up and Light Down) symbol is a legacy computing character originally designed for creating text-based user interfaces, tables, and borders in terminal environments. It features a continuous vertical line where the upper half is thick and the lower half is thin. Today, it remains useful in command-line interface (CLI) tools, retro ASCII art, and specialized plain-text formatting.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9599
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 257F
- HTML
- ╿
In Programming
In programming, this symbol is frequently used to dynamically draw structured tables, graphical directory trees, and UI borders directly within console or terminal outputs.
Tags
ASCII art line
CLI table
border
box drawing
box drawing character
dingbat
heavy light vertical
legacy computing character
line segment
table
terminal border
text UI border
unicode line 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