┥
Box Drawing 38
- Unicode
- U+2525
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┥
- CSS
- \2525
The ┥ symbol, officially named "Box Drawing Vertical Heavy and Left Light," is a structural text character from the Unicode Box Drawing block. Originally designed for early computer terminals and MS-DOS to draw graphical user interfaces in plain text, it depicts a thick vertical line joined by a thin horizontal line pointing left. Modern developers and ASCII artists still use it to design text-based tables, terminal user interfaces (TUIs), and intricate text graphics.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9509
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then type 2525 and press Enter
- HTML
- ┥
In Programming
Software engineers frequently use this character in command-line interface (CLI) applications and logging outputs to visually format tables, grids, and hierarchical directory trees in plain text.
Tags
ASCII art border
CLI border
T-junction right
TUI
border
box drawing
dingbat
heavy line
light line
monospace layout
right
t-junction
table
terminal UI
text table
unicode U+2525
vertical heavy left light