Box Drawings Vertical Double and Left Single

Unicode
U+2562
Category
Box Drawing
HTML Entity
╢
CSS
\2562
The ╢ (Box Drawing Vertical Double and Left Single) symbol is a legacy character originally designed for creating text-based user interfaces in early DOS and terminal environments. It features a vertical double line intersecting with a single horizontal line pointing left. Today, it is primarily used in ASCII art, retro gaming aesthetics, and command-line terminal designs to draw structural borders and grids.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+9570
macOS
Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+U then 2562
HTML
╢

In Programming

This symbol is heavily utilized in console-based applications and terminal scripts to render text-based tables, menus, and grid borders. Developers rely on it alongside other box-drawing characters to build structured graphical layouts without needing an actual graphical user interface (GUI).

Tags

ascii art border border box drawing box drawing vertical double left single cli formatting copy paste symbol dingbat dos character double line double vertical single horizontal frame retro computing table terminal table text ui unicode box character

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