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box drawings light vertical and left

Light Vertical-and-Left Box-Drawing Junction

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┤ is a three-way tee junction in box drawings: its vertical line continues up and down, and its arm reaches left. In fixed-width text, it connects branches and borders in terminal tables and diagrams, closing a divider or joining a path.

Text symbol

What ┤ means

A three-way tee junction for fixed-width text drawings. Its vertical stroke continues up and down, while its horizontal arm reaches left; matching strokes build borders, table dividers, trees, and terminal panels.

Its role comes from placement: at a divider's end it closes the line; in a table it marks a junction; in a tree it joins a branch. On its own, ┤ has no stable conversational meaning.

The box-drawing family grew from legacy standards in use before 1990, including terminal graphics sets and vendor or national standards. In those systems, fixed-pitch character cells let the strokes meet to make borders and interface panels.

Why does ┤ look wrong?

A mismatched font or cell width usually breaks the join. Box-drawing strokes are designed to meet at cell edges and midpoints. A proportional font, fallback glyph, or different terminal cell metrics can shift an arm and leave a gap.

Cascadia Code added box-drawing glyphs in 2019, but a supported glyph can still look broken if the surrounding character cells do not align.

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Don't confuse it with

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├
Box Drawings Light Vertical And Right
Its horizontal arm extends right; ┤ extends left.
┥
Box Drawings Vertical Light And Left Heavy
The junction is similar, but its left arm is heavy rather than light.
┼
Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal
This is a four-way crossing; ┤ has no rightward arm.
│
Box Drawings Light Vertical
This is a plain vertical stroke with no horizontal branch.
⊣
Left Tack
Left tack, a logic symbol. It sits like a letter and does not join box lines.
┫
Box Drawings Heavy Vertical And Left
The heavy version. ┤ uses thin strokes.
╡
Box Drawings Vertical Single And Left Double
Its left arm is a double line.
┨
Box Drawings Vertical Heavy And Left Light
A heavy vertical with a light left arm. ┤ is light throughout.

Combination ideas

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Peeking out from behind a brick wall.
Right end of a row divider in a light table.
A span with marked ends, like a range in a diagram.
An open top edge meeting a vertical junction at the right.

Questions people ask

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Why is ┤ broken in my terminal?

Usually a font or cell-alignment problem. The terminal needs a font with this glyph and consistent fixed-width cells; as of 2026, Windows legacy command prompts using raster fonts may still misrender box-drawing lines.

Collections with ┤

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How to type or find ┤

Search it as
tee junction · box junction · terminal table · text border · box drawing
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2524, then AltX 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 vertical and left”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2524, then Enter or Space.
HTML
┤
CSS
\2524
How do I type ┤?
In a Unicode-aware editor, open character search or its Unicode entry tool and look up U2524.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
┤
HTML hex
┤
CSS content
content: "\2524";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%94%A4
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
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

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Lines & boxes160 symbols

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