Box Drawings Light Vertical

Part of Box Drawing Characters

On Windows, hold Alt and type 179 on the numeric keypad to insert box drawings light vertical.

Alt code
Alt+179
HTML entity
│
Unicode
U+2502

About this symbol

│, the light vertical line, is Alt+179, the first of the IBM PC’s box-drawing characters in code page 437, which run from 179 to 218. Together they let DOS programs draw frames, tables and menus out of plain text.

Unicode facts

Official name
BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL
Also called
Videotex Mosaic DG 14
Type
Symbol
Unicode block
Box Drawing
Unicode group
Light and heavy solid lines
Added in
Unicode 1.1 (1993)

Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Box Drawing Characters chart for related characters.

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