U+251C "├" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Right Unicode Character

U+251C "├" Box Drawings Light Vertical and Right is a graphical symbol used in text-based user interfaces, technical diagrams, and ASCII art to represent a T-shaped junction in a grid or table, where a single vertical line meets a horizontal line extending to the right. It forms part of the box-drawing block in Unicode, specifically within the range from U+2500 to U+257F, and is typically rendered as a thin continuous line. This character is essential for creating structured layouts in plain text environments, such as terminal emulators or programming source code, where it helps connect a vertical stem to a branch heading rightward, enabling the construction of more complex charts or flowcharts without relying on images.