┽
Box Drawing 62
- Unicode
- U+253D
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┽
- CSS
- \253D
The ┽ symbol, officially named "Box Drawing Light Left And Heavy Right And Light Vertical," is a structural text character used to create grid intersections. Originating in legacy computing environments like MS-DOS, it helped developers build text-based graphical user interfaces and borders before modern pixel graphics existed. Today, it remains popular in ASCII art, terminal emulators, and command-line tools for drawing precise, stylized tables or diagrams.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9533
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "Box Drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 253D
- HTML
- ┽
In Programming
In programming, this symbol is frequently used in command-line interface (CLI) applications to render visually distinct tables, directory trees, or graphical text borders within the terminal.
Tags
ASCII art
TUI
border
box drawing
command-line
cross
cross intersection
dingbat
grid character
intersection
mixed line weight
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text-based interface
unicode box drawing