┋
Box Drawing 12
- Unicode
- U+250B
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┋
- CSS
- \250B
The ┋ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Heavy Vertical Four Dashes, is a legacy computing character originally used to create text-based user interfaces and grids in terminal environments. Today, it is primarily used in ASCII art, retro computing, or as a decorative vertical separator in plain text documents and social media bios. It features a bold, dashed line broken into four distinct segments, making it noticeably thicker and more prominent than its standard "light" counterpart.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9483 or Win+. then search
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 250b
- HTML
- ┋
In Programming
In programming, this character is commonly used in command-line interface (CLI) tools and terminal scripts to visually structure console output, draw robust borders, or format text-based tables.
Tags
ASCII art separator
bold vertical separator
border
box drawing
dingbat
heavy
heavy dashed vertical
heavy vertical divider
line
retro text UI
terminal vertical border
thick dashed line
vertical