║
Box Drawing 82
- Unicode
- U+2551
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ║
- CSS
- \2551
The ║ (box drawing double vertical) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used to create text-based user interfaces in early operating systems like MS-DOS. Today, it remains highly popular in ASCII art, retro terminal designs, and plain text documents to draw clean, double-lined vertical boundaries. It is typically combined with horizontal and corner box-drawing characters to construct structured grids, menus, and tables without relying on graphic elements.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9553 or Alt+186
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing double vertical"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2551
- HTML
- ║ or ║
In Programming
Developers frequently use this symbol in command-line interfaces (CLIs) and console output to render stylized tables, logging menus, and visual borders directly in the terminal.
Tags
ASCII art frame
CP437
Code Page 437
MS-DOS character
U+2551
border
box drawing
dingbat
double bar
double line
double vertical line
frame
retro terminal border
table
text table column
vertical double rule