┼
Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal
- Unicode
- U+253C
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┼
- CSS
- \253C
The ┼ symbol, officially known as Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal, is a legacy computing character originally designed for text-based user interfaces. It creates a seamless four-way intersection when drawing tables, grids, and window frames in terminal environments. Today, developers and artists still use it for ASCII art, command-line interface design, and formatting plain-text documents.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+197 or Alt+9532
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 253C
- HTML
- ┼
In Programming
Developers use this character in text-based UI libraries, like ncurses, or CLI outputs to render clean intersections in ASCII-formatted tables and visual grids.
Tags
ASCII art
TUI
border
box drawing
command-line
cross
dingbat
four-way intersection
grid cross
intersection
plus sign
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text-based interface
unicode box drawing
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