┆
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical
- Unicode
- U+2506
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┆
- CSS
- \2506
The ┆ (Box Drawing Light Triple Dash Vertical) symbol is a legacy computing character originally introduced to create grid layouts and user interfaces in text-based terminal environments. Today, it is frequently used in plain text documents, code comments, and social media bios to construct clean vertical dividers or visual hierarchies without relying on graphical design tools.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9478
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2506
- HTML
- ┆
In Programming
Programmers frequently use this symbol in command-line interfaces (CLI) and log outputs to visually indent nested data trees or separate data columns. It serves as a lightweight, text-based alternative to graphical borders in console applications and plain text README files.
Tags
ASCII vertical border
border
box drawing
dashed vertical line
dotted vertical divider
light triple dash vertical
line
plain-text column separator
table
text vertical dash
three-dash vertical
vertical
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 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
┌
Box Drawings Light Down and Right