┄
Box Drawing 5
- Unicode
- U+2504
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┄
- CSS
- \2504
The ┄ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Triple Dash Horizontal, is a legacy computing character originally designed to draw tables and frames in text-based terminal interfaces. Today, it is frequently used in ASCII art, command-line tool designs, and plain-text formatting to create stylish dashed dividers. Its subtle, three-dash structure offers a continuous, clean aesthetic compared to stringing together standard hyphens or em dashes.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 9476
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U then 2504
- HTML
- ┄
In Programming
In software development, this character is frequently used to render formatted console tables, dashed borders, and visual section separators in command-line interface (CLI) outputs.
Tags
ASCII dashed border
border
box drawing
dashed horizontal line
dotted line text
horizontal
light triple dash
line
plain-text dashed divider
table
terminal dash line
text dash separator
three-dash divider