┫
Box Drawings Heavy Vertical and Left
- Unicode
- U+252B
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┫
- CSS
- \252B
The ┫ symbol is a box-drawing character featuring a heavy vertical line intersected by an equally thick horizontal line pointing to the left. Originating from legacy text-based computing environments like MS-DOS, it was historically used to design menus, grids, and graphical user interfaces without relying on graphics processing. Today, developers and artists use it to craft detailed ASCII art, format command-line interface (CLI) outputs, and structure text-based tables.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9515
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 252b
- HTML
- ┫
In Programming
This symbol is heavily utilized in Terminal User Interface (TUI) libraries, such as ncurses, to render visually distinct table borders and structured text layouts directly in the console.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI menu
DOS UI
TUI
bold vertical T-junction
border
box drawing
dingbat
heavy vertical and left
monospace border
right
right-side junction
t-junction
table
terminal UI
text table
unicode U+252B
Related Symbols
─
Box Drawings Light Horizontal
━
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal
│
Box Drawings Light Vertical
┃
Box Drawings Heavy 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