╆
Box Drawings Right Down Heavy and Left Up Light
- Unicode
- U+2546
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╆
- CSS
- \2546
The ╆ (Box Drawing Right Down Heavy and Left Up Light) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used to design text-based user interfaces and tables in terminal environments. It forms a four-way cross intersection where the downward and rightward lines are drawn with a thick line and the upward and leftward lines use a thin line. Today, developers and retro-computing enthusiasts still use it to create ASCII art, command-line menus, and structured plain-text layouts.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9542 or type 2546 then Alt+X
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U, type 2546, then Enter
- HTML
- ╆ or ╆
In Programming
Programmers use this symbol when building command-line interface (CLI) applications to draw structured borders around text menus or output logs. It is particularly effective for differentiating a thick outer frame from thin internal grid lines in terminal formatting.
Tags
CLI
TUI
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
cross intersection
cross
dingbat
right down heavy left up light
intersection
mixed weight cross
monospace
retro computing
table
terminal ui
text graphics
four-way intersection
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