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box drawings vertical single and left double

Box-junction character

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In a text diagram, ╡ marks a box junction: a single upright stroke meets a double line coming from the left. This box-drawing character belongs to fixed-width text; proportional spacing or a damaged encoding can break the join.

Text symbol

What ╡ means

A single vertical stroke meets a double horizontal stroke that extends left.

Box-drawing characters fit into equal-width text cells to make borders, tables, and terminal panels. This character-cell style was in use before Unicode, which includes the set for compatibility with older systems. The IBM PC character set CP437 mapped ╡ to byte B5; DEC Special Graphics was another line-drawing set used on VT100-era terminals.

A monospaced font keeps neighboring cells aligned. Proportional spacing, a missing glyph, or text decoded with the wrong encoding can break the junction.

Don't confuse it with

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┤
Box Drawings Light Vertical And Left
┤ is all single lines; ╡'s leftward arm is two parallel lines.
╣
Box Drawings Double Vertical And Left
╣ has a double vertical stroke; ╡'s vertical is single.

Combination ideas

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Double divider line across a single-sided box.
Title inset into a double rule, as in old text UIs.
Double row divider crossing a single column line.

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.

Collections with ╡

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How to type or find ╡

Search it as
box junction · box drawing · CP437 box drawing · text diagram
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2561, 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 vertical single and left double”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2561, then Enter or Space.
HTML
╡
CSS
\2561
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
╡
HTML hex
╡
CSS content
content: "\2561";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%95%A1
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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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