┤
Box Drawings Light Vertical and Left
- Unicode
- U+2524
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┤
- CSS
- \2524
The ┤ (Box Drawing Light Vertical and Left) symbol is a legacy computing character originally designed to build text-based user interfaces and tables in terminal environments. It visually represents a right-side vertical boundary intersecting with a horizontal line pointing left. Today, it remains a staple in ASCII art, command-line tools, and plain-text documentation for drawing crisp, structured grids without relying on external graphics.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9508
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2524
- HTML
- ┤
In Programming
Developers frequently use this character in command-line interfaces (CLIs), text-based dashboards, and logging tools to render neat tables, directory tree diagrams, and console UI borders.
Tags
ASCII table
CLI layout
T-junction
TUI
border
box drawing
dingbat
monospace
right
right edge
table
table right border
terminal design
text art grid
unicode line drawing
vertical left
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