┈
Box Drawing 9
- Unicode
- U+2508
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┈
- CSS
- \2508
The ┈ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal, is a typographic character originally created for early computing environments to draw text-based user interfaces. Today, it is commonly used in plain text documents, coding environments, and social media to create clean horizontal dividers or decorative dashed borders. It perfectly mimics a finely dashed line, making it highly useful for structuring text layouts without relying on complex formatting.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9480
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then type 2508
- HTML
- ┈
In Programming
This character is frequently utilized in command-line interface (CLI) applications and plain text files to render dashed borders, tables, or structural diagrams. Programmers often output it in terminal logs to visually separate blocks of information.
Tags
ASCII divider
border
box drawing
dashed horizontal line
dashed line
dingbat
dotted line unicode
horizontal
horizontal separator
light dash
line
quadruple dash
table
text divider
unicode dashed line