╭
Box Drawing 110
- Unicode
- U+256D
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╭
- CSS
- \256D
The ╭ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Arc Down And Right, is a text character originally designed to create rounded graphic borders in legacy computing environments like DOS. Today, it is widely used in text-based user interfaces (TUIs) to draw smooth window corners, as well as in creative text art and kaomoji to represent arms or facial features.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9581
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing light arc"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 256D
- HTML
- ╭
In Programming
In programming, this character is frequently used when building command-line interfaces (CLIs) or console applications to render elegant, rounded top-left corners for text boxes and layout grids.
Tags
U+256D
arc corner
border
box drawing
corner
dingbat
discord emoji
emoticon part
kaomoji
rounded
rounded corner
table
terminal UI
text art
top left corner