╬
Box Drawing 109
- Unicode
- U+256C
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╬
- CSS
- \256C
The ╬ (double vertical and horizontal) symbol is a box-drawing character featuring a four-way intersection made of parallel double lines. Originating from legacy text-based computing environments like MS-DOS, it was traditionally used to construct complex menus, grids, and UI borders within the terminal. Today, it remains popular in ASCII art, retro gaming interfaces, and formatting plain-text tables where graphical elements aren't available.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9580
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 256C
- HTML
- ╬
In Programming
Commonly used in command-line interface (CLI) scripts and plain-text output logs to render structural borders, format tables, or create visual grid layouts.
Tags
MS-DOS
U+256C
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
double line
four-way intersection
frame
grid border
retro computing
table
terminal
text graphics
unicode