┫
Box Drawing 44
- Unicode
- U+252B
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┫
- CSS
- \252B
The ┫ symbol is a box-drawing character featuring a heavy vertical line intersected by a lighter horizontal line pointing to the left. Originating from legacy text-based computing environments like MS-DOS, it was historically used to design menus, grids, and graphical user interfaces without relying on graphics processing. Today, developers and artists use it to craft detailed ASCII art, format command-line interface (CLI) outputs, and structure text-based tables.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9515
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 252b
- HTML
- ┫
In Programming
This symbol is heavily utilized in Terminal User Interface (TUI) libraries, such as ncurses, to render visually distinct table borders and structured text layouts directly in the console.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI menu
DOS UI
TUI
bold vertical T-junction
border
box drawing
dingbat
heavy vertical light left
monospace border
right
right-side junction
t-junction
table
terminal UI
text table
unicode U+252B