╲
Box Drawing 115
- Unicode
- U+2572
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╲
- CSS
- \2572
The ╲ symbol represents a light diagonal line extending from the upper left to the lower right, belonging to the Unicode Box Drawing block. Originally introduced for legacy computing systems to construct text-based user interfaces, this character helped create rudimentary graphics before modern pixel displays became standard. Today, it remains popular in ASCII art, terminal emulators, and plain text formatting to draw geometric shapes or connect visual elements.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9586
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2572
- HTML
- ╲
In Programming
Developers use this character in text-based user interfaces (TUIs), command-line applications, and ncurses environments to draw scalable borders, graphs, and ASCII graphics without relying on a GUI.
Tags
U+2572
ascii art backslash
back diagonal
backslash
box drawing
diagonal
dingbat
line
oblique line
reverse slash
slash
terminal graphics
text backslash
unicode backslash