┠
Box Drawings Vertical Heavy and Right Light
- Unicode
- U+2520
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┠
- CSS
- \2520
The ┠ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Vertical Heavy and Right Light character, is a text-based graphical element originally designed for early computing environments. It features a thick vertical line intersecting with a thinner, right-pointing horizontal line to form a specific T-junction. Today, developers and ASCII artists use it in command-line interfaces to construct structured tables, directory trees, and decorative text borders.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9504
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2520
- HTML
- ┠
In Programming
Programmers frequently use this character when building text-based user interfaces (TUIs), drawing terminal GUI borders, or rendering detailed directory tree structures in command-line outputs.
Tags
ASCII table
CLI design
T-junction
TUI
border
box drawing
dingbat
left
monospace
right light
table
terminal structure
text UI
tree branch
unicode box
vertical heavy
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