410 lines, boxes & shapes characters for build tables and dividers out of text. Tap any character to copy it — including the plain-text versions that survive any font.
Tap or click a character and it goes straight to your clipboard. These are Unicode text characters, not images, so they paste into any text field.
Box-drawing characters let you make real tables and frames in plain text. They are in every monospaced font and most proportional ones, which is why they show up in README files, code comments and text-only diagrams.
There are 410 characters in this set. The grid above is the fastest way to take one — tap it and it is on your clipboard. The table below gives the official Unicode name of each character, which is the name used by every database, font tool and search box.
| Symbol | Unicode name | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| ─ | Box Drawings Light Horizontal | the basic line for text diagrams and dividers |
| │ | Box Drawings Light Vertical | vertical strokes in ASCII tables |
| ┌ | Box Drawings Light Down And Right | top-left corner of a box |
| ┐ | Box Drawings Light Down And Left | |
| └ | Box Drawings Light Up And Right | |
| ┘ | Box Drawings Light Up And Left | |
| ┤ | Box Drawings Light Vertical And Left | |
| ├ | Box Drawings Light Vertical And Right | |
| ┬ | Box Drawings Light Down And Horizontal | |
| ┴ | Box Drawings Light Up And Horizontal | |
| ┼ | Box Drawings Light Vertical And Horizontal | a four-way junction — the centre of a table |
| ═ | Box Drawings Double Horizontal | the heavier double line, used for emphasis |
| ║ | Box Drawings Double Vertical | |
| ╔ | Box Drawings Double Down And Right | |
| ╗ | Box Drawings Double Down And Left | |
| ╚ | Box Drawings Double Up And Right | |
| ╝ | Box Drawings Double Up And Left | |
| ● | Black Circle | a solid bullet that works in any font |
| ○ | White Circle | |
| ◯ | Large Circle | |
| ◆ | Black Diamond | |
| ◇ | White Diamond | |
| ■ | Black Square | |
| □ | White Square | |
| ▪ | Black Small Square | |
| ▫ | White Small Square | |
| ♦ | Black Diamond Suit | |
| ♢ | White Diamond Suit | |
| ① | Circled Digit One | numbered lists that sit inline with the text |
| ② | Circled Digit Two | |
| ③ | Circled Digit Three | |
| ④ | Circled Digit Four | |
| ⑤ | Circled Digit Five | |
| ⑥ | Circled Digit Six | |
| ⑦ | Circled Digit Seven | |
| ⑧ | Circled Digit Eight | |
| ⑨ | Circled Digit Nine | |
| ⑩ | Circled Number Ten | |
| ⑪ | Circled Number Eleven | continues the sequence past ten |
| ⑫ | Circled Number Twelve | |
| ⑬ | Circled Number Thirteen | |
| ⑭ | Circled Number Fourteen | |
| ⑮ | Circled Number Fifteen | |
| ⑯ | Circled Number Sixteen | |
| ⑰ | Circled Number Seventeen | |
| ⑱ | Circled Number Eighteen | |
| ⑲ | Circled Number Nineteen | |
| ⑳ | Circled Number Twenty | the last of the plain circled numbers |
| ❶ | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit One | the filled version, for emphasis |
| ❷ | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Two | |
| ❸ | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Three | |
| ❹ | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Four | |
| ❺ | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Five | |
| ❻ | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Six | |
| ❼ | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Seven | |
| ❽ | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Eight | |
| ❾ | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Nine | |
| ❿ | Dingbat Negative Circled Number Ten | |
| ‾ | Overline | |
| ⟡ | White Concave-Sided Diamond | the modern soft-sparkle look |
| ⊗ | Circled Times | |
| ⊚ | Circled Ring Operator | |
| ⊝ | Circled Dash | |
| ⊏ | Square Image Of | |
| ⊐ | Square Original Of | |
| ⊓ | Square Cap | |
| ⊔ | Square Cup | |
| ⊠ | Squared Times | |
| ⋄ | Diamond Operator | |
| ⋯ | Midline Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| ⦿ | Circled Bullet | |
| ╒ | Box Drawings Down Single And Right Double | |
| ╕ | Box Drawings Down Single And Left Double | |
| ┏ | Box Drawings Heavy Down And Right | |
| ┛ | Box Drawings Heavy Up And Left | |
| ┕ | Box Drawings Up Light And Right Heavy | |
| ┓ | Box Drawings Heavy Down And Left | |
| ┖ | Box Drawings Up Heavy And Right Light | |
| ┒ | Box Drawings Down Heavy And Left Light | |
| ┗ | Box Drawings Heavy Up And Right |
Every character on this page is a button, and the steps are identical on a phone, a tablet and a desktop:
Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded. These are standard Unicode characters, so the device you are already holding knows how to draw them.
Ordinary text is safe everywhere. The problems start with two groups: characters that need a font the receiving device may not ship with, and applications that deliberately filter what you can type.
| Place | Works? | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram, TikTok, X bio and captions | Yes | Symbols and emoji both display; a handful of rare glyphs may render as a box on older Android versions |
| Discord display name and messages | Yes | Almost everything works, including the rarer box-drawing characters |
| WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal | Yes | Full support for emoji and symbols |
| Word, Google Docs, Excel, Sheets | Yes | Fine on a desktop; fonts on older Office installs may miss the newest glyphs |
| Most online games (usernames) | Sometimes | Many titles strip anything outside their font. Test with one symbol first |
| SMS | Yes, but | An emoji can push a message into a longer billing segment |
The practical rule: if you are decorating a bio or a document, paste freely. If you are building a username that has to survive a game login screen, start with one character, confirm it appears, then add the rest.