╃
Box Drawings Left Up Heavy and Right Down Light
- Unicode
- U+2543
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╃
- CSS
- \2543
The ╃ (Box Drawings Left Up Heavy And Right Down Light) symbol is a legacy computing character originally designed for creating graphical user interfaces in text-based environments. It features thick lines extending up and to the left, meeting thin lines extending down and to the right. Today, it is primarily used in retro ASCII art, terminal emulation, and decorative text borders.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9539
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "Box Drawings Light Up"
- HTML
- ╃
In Programming
This symbol is frequently used in command-line interfaces, shell scripting, and console applications to construct text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and data tables.
Tags
CLI
TUI
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
cross
dingbat
intersection
left up heavy right down light
mixed weight
monospace
plain text
retro computing
table
terminal ui
text graphics
text-mode
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