╽
Box Drawings Light Up and Heavy Down
- Unicode
- U+257D
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╽
- CSS
- \257D
The ╽ (Box Drawing Light Up and Heavy Down) symbol is a legacy typographical character used to construct text-based graphics and grids. Originating in early computing eras before modern graphical interfaces, it renders a vertical line with a thin upper half and a thick lower half. Today, it remains popular in command-line interfaces, retro ASCII art, and terminal design for drawing mixed-weight borders or connecting UI elements.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9597
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- HTML
- ╽
In Programming
In software development, this symbol is frequently used in console applications, command-line scripts, and text-based UIs to draw custom vertical borders and visualize mixed-weight directory tree structures.
Tags
CLI
U+257D
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
line segment
mixed weight line
retro terminal
table
terminal UI
text graphics
thick lower
unicode
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