╎
Box Drawing 79
- Unicode
- U+254E
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╎
- CSS
- \254E
The ╎ (Box Drawing Light Double Dash Vertical) symbol is a legacy computing character originally designed to draw borders, grids, and user interfaces in text-only terminal environments. It appears as a thin vertical line broken into two equal dashed segments. Today, designers and developers use it primarily in ASCII art, retro-style text formatting, or to visually separate columns of data in plain text documents.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9550
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'double dash vertical'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 254E then Enter
- HTML
- ╎
In Programming
In software development, this symbol is frequently used within command-line interfaces (CLI) and console applications to render structured text tables and graphical grid dividers.
Tags
ASCII art
TUI character
U+254E
Unicode box drawing
border
box drawing
column separator
dingbat
double dash vertical
line
retro computing
table
terminal character
text-based UI
vertical
vertical line