| Character | ┼ |
| Name | Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal |
| Unicode Code Point | U+253C |
| Decimal Value | 9532 |
| Hex Value | 0x253C |
| Category | Box Drawing |
| Windows Alt Code | Alt+197 |
| Word Alt+X Code | 253C + Alt+X |
| Mac Shortcut | Not available — use copy/paste |
| HTML Entity | ┼ |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | ┼ / ┼ |
| CSS Content Code | content: "\253C"; |
| JavaScript Unicode Escape | "\u{253C}" |
Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal is a box-drawing character used to construct borders, tables, and frames directly out of text characters — a technique still used today in terminal applications, ASCII art, and command-line tool interfaces.
Unicode block: Box Drawing (U+2500–U+257F). Box-drawing characters originate from early IBM PC "code page 437" graphics, used to draw borders, tables, and simple UI frames in text-mode DOS applications before graphical interfaces existed.
At Unicode code point U+253C (decimal 9532), Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal is the 61st of 128 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, it has a documented Windows Alt code, though no dedicated single-key Mac shortcut — Mac users generally rely on copy-paste for it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.
💡 Good to know: Several box-drawing characters (particularly single-line ones) have classic DOS-era Alt codes from code page 437, distinct from the Windows-1252 Alt+0xxx codes used for accented letters.
Hold Alt and type 197 on the numeric keypad.
No dedicated shortcut — click the copy button above and paste with Cmd+V.
Click the symbol above to copy it, then paste anywhere — works on every device and OS.
Use the entity ┼ in your HTML.
On Windows, hold Alt and type 197 on the numeric keypad (with Num Lock on), or copy ┼ from this page and paste it with Ctrl+V.
There is no dedicated Mac shortcut for Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal. Copy ┼ from this page and paste it with Command+V.
Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal (┼) is Unicode U+253C, decimal 9532.
Use the HTML entity ┼, or the numeric code ┼ (hex ┼).