╮
Box Drawing 111
- Unicode
- U+256E
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╮
- CSS
- \256E
The ╮ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Arc Down And Left, is a structural character originally designed for legacy computing systems. Part of the Unicode Box Drawing block, it was historically used to create text-based user interfaces and render the rounded top-right corners of terminal windows. Today, internet users primarily use this symbol in creative text art and kaomoji, most notably in shrugging emoticons like ╮(￣▽￣)╭ to convey indifference, helplessness, or mild confusion.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9582 (on numeric keypad)
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, then search "arc down and left"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U, type 256E, then Enter
- HTML
- ╮
In Programming
In software development, this character is frequently used when building command-line interfaces (CLIs) or console applications to draw aesthetically pleasing, rounded bounding boxes around text.
Tags
U+256E
border
box drawing
corner
dingbat
helplessness
indifference
kaomoji
rounded
rounded corner
shrug emoticon
table
text art
top right corner
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