┇
Box Drawing 8
- Unicode
- U+2507
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┇
- CSS
- \2507
The ┇ symbol is a vertical line composed of three thick dashes, officially known as the Box Drawing Heavy Triple Dash Vertical. Originating from the legacy Box Drawing Unicode block, it was historically used to build graphical user interfaces and tables in text-only computing environments. Today, developers use it to create crisp borders in terminal applications, format console outputs, and design detailed ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9479
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "heavy triple dash vertical"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2507 then Enter
- HTML
- ┇
In Programming
Frequently utilized in terminal-based programming and CLI tool development to render visually distinct vertical borders, separate columns of data, or outline console windows.
Tags
ASCII thick column
Unicode heavy dash
bold dashed vertical
border
box drawing
heavy
heavy triple dash vertical
heavy vertical border
line
terminal heavy vertical
text bold separator vertical
thick vertical dashes
vertical