┣
Box Drawing 36
- Unicode
- U+2523
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┣
- CSS
- \2523
The ┣ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Right character, is a legacy computing symbol originally designed for text-based user interfaces. It features a thick vertical line intersecting with a thick right-facing horizontal line, making it perfect for rendering the left edge of a menu box or grid in early DOS environments. Today, developers and designers frequently use it in ASCII art, command-line interfaces, and terminal outputs to visually represent branching file directories or complex data structures.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9507
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2523
- HTML
- ┣
In Programming
This symbol is used extensively in command-line tools (such as the standard directory `tree` command) and text-based UI libraries like Ncurses to draw visual borders, structural trees, and data hierarchies entirely out of text characters.
Tags
ASCII grid
CLI table
DOS UI
TUI
bold T-junction
border
box drawing
dingbat
file tree
heavy T
left
monospace design
t-junction
table
terminal menu
thick border
unicode box drawing