╴
Box Drawing 117
- Unicode
- U+2574
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╴
- CSS
- \2574
The ╴ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Left character, is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block originally designed for text-based terminal interfaces. It represents a horizontal line segment that extends from the center of the character space to the left edge. Today, it is primarily used in retro ASCII art, command-line interface design, and creating custom text-based UI borders.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9588
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing light left"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 2574 Space
- HTML
- ╴
In Programming
In legacy terminal applications and modern command-line utilities, this symbol is used to draw clean, connected graphical borders and directory trees without relying on external graphics libraries.
Tags
U+2574
ascii dash
border
box drawing
dingbat
half line
horizontal line
left segment
line fragment
line segment
short dash
table
terminal border segment
text dash