┝
Box Drawings Vertical Light and Right Heavy
- Unicode
- U+251D
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┝
- CSS
- \251D
The ┝ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Vertical Light and Right Heavy, is a legacy character used to create graphical interfaces within text-based environments. It features a thin vertical line intersected by a thicker, bold horizontal line extending to the right. Today, it is primarily used in command-line tools, retro text art, and formatting directory tree structures in technical documentation.
How to Type
- Windows
- In Word: type 251D, then press Alt + X. Other apps have no standard Windows shortcut for it — copy it from this page
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space, then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 251d and press Enter
- HTML
- ┝
In Programming
Developers use this character in command-line interfaces to construct ASCII-style tables, border graphics, and visual directory trees. It is especially common in text-based UIs (TUIs) to indicate a branching item that requires bold visual emphasis.
Tags
ASCII table
T-junction
TUI
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
heavy right
left
light vertical
mixed weight
monospace
retro text art
table
terminal UI
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