╱
Box Drawing 114
- Unicode
- U+2571
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╱
- CSS
- \2571
The ╱ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left, is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block. Originally designed for legacy computing environments to create text-based graphics and tables, it represents a continuous, lightweight diagonal line. Today, it is commonly used in ASCII art, terminal interfaces, and creative typography to form intricate shapes or stylized dividers.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9585
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing" or use Unicode Hex Input (Option+2571)
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2571 then Space/Enter
- HTML
- ╱
In Programming
In programming and terminal environments, this symbol is primarily used to draw command-line interfaces (CLIs) and text-based UI components. It serves as a visual layout element rather than a functional operator like the standard forward slash (/).
Tags
U+2571
ascii art slash
box drawing
diagonal
diagonal line
dingbat
forward slash
line
oblique line
slant
slash
terminal graphics
text divider
unicode slash