┌
Box Drawing 13
- Unicode
- U+250C
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┌
- CSS
- \250C
The ┌ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Light Down and Right, is a structural character originally used in legacy computing to create text-based user interfaces. It forms the top-left corner of a thin-lined box or table. Today, you will frequently see it used in command-line tools, plain text documents, and intricate ASCII art to frame content neatly.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+218
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 250c
- HTML
- ┌
In Programming
Developers use this character to draw tables, frames, and tree-like directory structures directly in terminal outputs and plain text logs. It is a staple in command-line interface (CLI) design for creating visually distinct boundaries without using graphical elements.
Tags
ASCII art box
ASCII box corner
CLI table corner
border
box drawing
box frame
corner
dingbat
directory tree
table
terminal border
text frame corner
top left
top left corner unicode