Line Symbols Copy Paste — Horizontal, Vertical & Decorative Lines
Line Symbols You Can Copy Right Now
Line symbols are some of the most versatile characters you will find. People use them as text dividers, borders, decorative separators in social media bios, table formatting, and even ASCII art. Unicode has an entire block dedicated to box-drawing characters, plus dozens of horizontal and vertical line variants scattered across other blocks. Here is every line symbol you might need, ready to copy.
Basic Horizontal Line Symbols
These are the most common horizontal line characters used as text dividers:
| Symbol | Name | Unicode |
|---|---|---|
| ─ | Box Drawing Light Horizontal | U+2500 |
| ━ | Box Drawing Heavy Horizontal | U+2501 |
| ╌ | Box Drawing Light Double Dash Horizontal | U+254C |
| ╍ | Box Drawing Heavy Double Dash Horizontal | U+254D |
| ┄ | Box Drawing Light Triple Dash Horizontal | U+2504 |
| ┅ | Box Drawing Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal | U+2505 |
Em Dash and Hyphen Lines
For a quick text divider, people often string together dashes or em dashes:
- ————— — Em dashes (U+2014)
- ––––– — En dashes (U+2013)
- ───── — Box drawing horizontal (U+2500)
- ━━━━━ — Box drawing heavy horizontal (U+2501)
- ╴╴╴╴╴ — Light left horizontal (U+2574)
Vertical Line Symbols
Vertical lines are useful for creating columns or decorative side borders:
| Symbol | Name | Unicode |
|---|---|---|
| │ | Box Drawing Light Vertical | U+2502 |
| ┃ | Box Drawing Heavy Vertical | U+2503 |
| | | Vertical Line (Pipe) | U+007C |
| ‖ | Double Vertical Line | U+2016 |
| ┆ | Box Drawing Light Triple Dash Vertical | U+2506 |
| ┇ | Box Drawing Heavy Triple Dash Vertical | U+2507 |
Corner and Junction Symbols (Box Drawing)
These let you create boxes and frames using text characters:
| Symbol | Name | Unicode |
|---|---|---|
| ┌ | Top Left Corner | U+250C |
| ┐ | Top Right Corner | U+2510 |
| └ | Bottom Left Corner | U+2514 |
| ┘ | Bottom Right Corner | U+2518 |
| ├ | Left Junction (T) | U+251C |
| ┤ | Right Junction (T) | U+2524 |
| ┬ | Top Junction (Inverted T) | U+252C |
| ┴ | Bottom Junction (T) | U+2534 |
| ┼ | Cross (Plus Junction) | U+253C |
Decorative Line Dividers
These are popular for social media bios, Tumblr posts, and aesthetic text layouts:
- ─── ✧ ─── — Star divider
- ────┤ Arrow end line
- ────────── — Clean horizontal divider
- ━━━━━━━━━━ — Heavy horizontal divider
- ∼∼∼∼∼∼∼∼ — Wavy line divider (U+223C)
Diagonal Line Symbols
For more creative designs, diagonal lines add variety:
- ╱ — Upper left to lower right (U+2571)
- ╲ — Upper right to lower left (U+2572)
- ╳ — Diagonal crossing (U+2573)
How to Use Line Symbols
On Windows, you can type some box-drawing characters using Alt codes with the numeric keypad. For example, Alt+196 gives you ─ and Alt+179 gives you │. On Mac, press Control+Command+Space to open the Character Viewer and search for "box drawing" or "horizontal line."
The most reliable method on any device is to copy the symbols directly from the tables above. Line symbols render consistently across all modern browsers and operating systems, making them perfect for web content, social media, and messaging.
Quick Copy — Most Popular Line Symbols
All the most-used line characters in one place:
─ ━ │ ┃ ╴ ╵ ╶ ╷ ╱ ╲ ╳ ┼ ┌ ┐ └ ┘
Whether you are formatting a text document, creating ASCII art, building a table layout in plain text, or just decorating your social media bio, line symbols give you a surprisingly powerful toolkit. The entire Unicode box-drawing block (U+2500 to U+257F) was designed for exactly this purpose.