What ╏ means
It builds a dashed vertical divider in a text diagram. Each cell holds two heavy vertical strokes with gaps; stack the cells to extend the divider or border.
Unicode's box-drawing set draws on older computer, national, and industry standards. These lines served fixed-width tables and borders, including the IBM PC character set Code Page 437, Videotex services showing text and simple graphics on television, and terminal graphics. Similar lines do not prove a system used this exact form.
The gaps are intentional. A proportional font can make repeated cells look uneven; a font without this character may show a replacement box.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ╏ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ╏
- Search it as
- box drawing · vertical divider · text diagram · terminal divider
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
╏\254FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.