╵
Box Drawings Light Up
- Unicode
- U+2575
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╵
- CSS
- \2575
The ╵ (Box Drawing Light Up) symbol is a legacy character originally designed for early computer terminals to build text-based user interfaces. It consists of a thin vertical line extending upward from the center of the character space, occupying only the top half of the line height. Today, developers and digital artists rely on it for crafting ASCII art, drawing terminal menus, and mapping out file directory trees in plain text.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9589
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing light up"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2575
- HTML
- ╵
In Programming
Software developers frequently use this character in command-line applications and console outputs to visually structure data, such as drawing the branches of a file directory tree.
Tags
CLI
U+2575
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
directory tree
line segment
plain text
table
terminal UI
text graphics
unicode
vertical line
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