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╴

box drawings light left

Box-drawing light left

╴ is a leftward stroke in box drawing, used for line drawings, text borders, and terminal panels. It has no standard chat meaning.

Text symbol

Search it as: box drawing · text border · terminal line · line drawing
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ╴ means

A leftward stroke for text diagrams. Box drawing builds borders, tables, and terminal panels from connected character cells.

Before 1990, terminals and computers used these pieces to draw lines on text-only screens. Related sets include DEC terminal graphics, mosaic-style Videotex screens, Chinese GB 2312 and Korean KS X 1001 character standards; Unicode brought these connected sets together for compatibility.

Technical diagram punctuation for terminals, tables, and text art.

Alone in a chat, it can read like a stray dash.

Don't confuse it with

╶

Box Drawings Light Right

╶ extends right from the center; ╴ extends left.

─

Box Drawings Light Horizontal

─ crosses the full cell; ╴ is one directional segment.

Questions people ask

Why 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.

How to type ╴

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 2574, then Alt+X to get ╴.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “box drawings light left”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 2574, then Enter or Space.

HTML

╴

CSS

\2574

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

╴

HTML hex

╴

CSS content

content: "\2574";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%95%B4

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Lines & boxes160 symbols

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