┝
Box Drawing 30
- Unicode
- U+251D
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┝
- CSS
- \251D
The ┝ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Vertical Light and Right Heavy, is a legacy character used to create graphical interfaces within text-based environments. It features a thin vertical line intersected by a thicker, bold horizontal line extending to the right. Today, it is primarily used in command-line tools, retro text art, and formatting directory tree structures in technical documentation.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 9501
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space, then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 251d and press Enter
- HTML
- ┝
In Programming
Developers use this character in command-line interfaces to construct ASCII-style tables, border graphics, and visual directory trees. It is especially common in text-based UIs (TUIs) to indicate a branching item that requires bold visual emphasis.
Tags
ASCII table
T-junction
TUI
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
heavy right
left
light vertical
mixed weight
monospace
retro text art
table
terminal UI
unicode box drawing