┸
Box Drawings Up Heavy and Horizontal Light
- Unicode
- U+2538
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┸
- CSS
- \2538
The ┸ symbol, officially named "Box Drawing Up Heavy And Horizontal Light," is a structural character used to design text-based interfaces. It features a thick upward-pointing vertical line intersecting a thin horizontal base. While originally created for legacy terminal emulators and MS-DOS environments, modern developers still use it to format command-line tables, organize data logs, and design ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9528
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2538
- HTML
- ┸
In Programming
Developers use this symbol to render structured data, draw console-based tables, and create text-based user interfaces (TUIs) in command-line applications.
Tags
ASCII data log format
MS-DOS interface
U+2538
border
bottom
bottom T-junction heavy
box drawing
box drawing up heavy and horizontal light
command line table
dingbat
t-junction
table
terminal border character
thick up thin horizontal
unicode 2538
unicode box drawing
up heavy horizontal light
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