├ Light vertical-and-right connector

What ├ means

It marks a branch from a continuing vertical line. In a text tree, later items still follow along that vertical path.

Keep joined lines in a monospace font, where characters have equal widths. A proportional font or missing box-drawing glyph can spoil alignment.

These characters built borders on screens arranged in rows and columns of characters. Unicode preserves compatibility with graphic sets used before 1990.

Part of collections

╔

Box Drawing Characters

╭

Border & Frame Symbols

Don't confuse it with

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+

Plus Sign

An ASCII fallback—the basic keyboard character set—but its four arms do not match this three-way junction.

⊢

Right Tack

Right tack, the logic sign for 'proves'. It sits like a letter and does not join box lines.

┣

Box Drawings Heavy Vertical And Right

The heavy version with thick strokes. ├ is the light one.

┝

Box Drawings Vertical Light And Right Heavy

Only the right arm is heavy; the vertical stays light.

╞

Box Drawings Vertical Single And Right Double

Its right arm is a double line, where ├ has a single light arm.

Related characters

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│

Box Drawings Light Vertical

The matching light vertical line extends the connector upward or downward.

─

Box Drawings Light Horizontal

The matching light horizontal line extends its right-hand branch.

└

Box Drawings Light Up And Right

In tree listings, ├── marks each entry and └── marks the last one, closing the branch.

┤

Box Drawings Light Vertical And Left

Its mirror image: the right-edge junction where row dividers meet the right border.

┼

Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal

Add a left arm to ├ and you get ┼, the four-way crossing inside a grid.

Combination ideas

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A folder listing like the tree command prints.

Branch items in a nested outline or menu.

Left end of a row divider in a light table.

Peeking out from behind a brick wall.

Questions people ask

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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.