╌
Box Drawings Light Double Dash Horizontal
- Unicode
- U+254C
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╌
- CSS
- \254C
The ╌ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Double Dash Horizontal, is a typographic character historically used in terminal environments to build text-based user interfaces. It is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block and is frequently combined with other line and corner symbols to create dashed borders, grids, and structural elements in plaintext documents. Today, developers and ASCII artists still use it for drawing clear, monospaced diagrams and retro-style graphics.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 9548 or Win + . then search "box drawing"
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U then 254C
- HTML
- ╌
In Programming
Primarily used in command-line interface (CLI) applications and console scripts to render lightweight, text-based tables or dashed horizontal separators without relying on graphical user interfaces.
Tags
CLI
TUI
ascii art
border
box drawing
broken line
command line
dashed line
dingbat
dotted line
double dash horizontal
horizontal
light dashed
line
monospace
retro computing
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