┆
Box Drawing 7
- Unicode
- U+2506
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┆
- CSS
- \2506
The ┆ (Box Drawing Light Triple Dash Vertical) symbol is a legacy computing character originally introduced to create grid layouts and user interfaces in text-based terminal environments. Today, it is frequently used in plain text documents, code comments, and social media bios to construct clean vertical dividers or visual hierarchies without relying on graphical design tools.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9478
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2506
- HTML
- ┆
In Programming
Programmers frequently use this symbol in command-line interfaces (CLI) and log outputs to visually indent nested data trees or separate data columns. It serves as a lightweight, text-based alternative to graphical borders in console applications and plain text README files.
Tags
ASCII vertical border
border
box drawing
dashed vertical line
dotted vertical divider
light triple dash vertical
line
plain-text column separator
table
text vertical dash
three-dash vertical
vertical