┃
Box Drawings Heavy Vertical
- Unicode
- U+2503
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┃
- CSS
- \2503
The ┃ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Heavy Vertical character, is a legacy computing glyph originally designed to build text-based user interfaces. It displays as a thick, continuous vertical line, making it perfect for drawing structural grids, tables, and borders in plain text environments. Today, developers and digital artists frequently use it in command-line applications, ASCII art, and social media layouts to create clean visual dividers.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 9475
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing heavy vertical"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2503
- HTML
- ┃
In Programming
Widely used in command-line interface (CLI) applications and terminal scripts to render thick vertical borders for text-based tables, menus, or directory trees.
Tags
ASCII art thick border
Unicode heavy vertical
bold vertical line
border
box drawing
heavy
heavy vertical bar
line
social media separator
terminal column divider
text table heavy
thick vertical line
vertical
Related Symbols
─
Box Drawings Light Horizontal
━
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal
│
Box Drawings Light Vertical
┄
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Horizontal
┅
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal
┆
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical
┇
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical
┈
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┉
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┊
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical
┋
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical
┌
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