╅
Box Drawings Left Down Heavy and Right Up Light
- Unicode
- U+2545
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╅
- CSS
- \2545
The ╅ (Box Drawings Left Down Heavy And Right Up Light) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used to construct graphical user interfaces in text-only environments. It forms a four-way cross intersection where the left and downward lines are thick, while the right and upward lines are thin. Programmers and text-art enthusiasts still use it alongside other box-drawing characters to create terminal UI borders, intricate ASCII art, and text-based tables.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9541
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawings right heavy"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2545
- HTML
- ╅
In Programming
This character is primarily used in command-line interface (CLI) development, such as with the ncurses library, to render complex, multi-weight grid lines and table boundaries directly within the terminal.
Tags
CLI
cross intersection
TUI
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
cross
dingbat
intersection
right up light
mixed weight
monospace
retro computing
left down heavy
table
terminal ui
text graphics
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