Box Drawings Heavy Down

╻ is a heavy downward stroke used in text borders, diagrams, and terminal user interfaces (TUIs). Neighboring box-drawing characters join it into a larger outline.

Text symbol

What ╻ means

It is one heavy downward stroke in a grid of text cells. Each cell is a fixed character slot; neighboring strokes meet at its edges.

Vendor and terminal sets used box-drawing lines before 1990. IBM's Code Page 437, a PC character set, made related pieces familiar in 1981. Videotex—text and simple graphics sent to screens over phone lines—distinguished light and heavy strokes in 1988. Unicode preserved these connected drawing sets for compatibility.

Why does ╻ misalign in a terminal?

A font or renderer can break cell alignment. Proportional or fallback fonts, extra spacing, or changed line height can leave gaps; check the full drawing in a monospaced font.

As of 2026, GPU-accelerated VS Code terminals can custom-render Box Drawing characters, including ╻.

Don't confuse it with

╷

Box Drawings Light Down

Light down stroke; same direction, thinner.

╹

Box Drawings Heavy Up

Heavy up stroke; opposite direction.

┃

Box Drawings Heavy Vertical

Heavy full-height vertical line.

Questions people ask

Why does ╻ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.