┿
Box Drawing 64
- Unicode
- U+253F
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┿
- CSS
- \253F
The ┿ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Vertical Single and Horizontal Thick character, is a legacy computing glyph used to create text-based graphics. It features a thin vertical line intersecting a heavy horizontal line, making it highly effective for structuring grids, terminal user interfaces (TUIs), or retro ASCII art. Today, developers and plain-text enthusiasts still use it to design stylized command-line tables or elaborate structural borders.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9535
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing" or use Hex input
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then type 253f and press Enter
- HTML
- ┿
In Programming
Programmers use this symbol in terminal-based user interfaces and command-line logging to render robust table borders, utilizing the varying line weights to visually separate sections like headers and data rows.
Tags
ASCII art
TUI
border
box drawing
command-line
cross
dingbat
grid character
heavy horizontal
intersection
light vertical
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text-based interface
unicode box drawing