┓
Box Drawing 20
- Unicode
- U+2513
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┓
- CSS
- \2513
The ┓ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Heavy Down And Left, is a typographic character used to create the top-right corner of a thick-lined border. Originating from legacy computing environments like DOS and early text terminals, it allowed developers to draw graphical interfaces using plain text. Today, it remains popular in ASCII art, retro terminal styling, and plain-text structural layouts.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9491
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 2513
- HTML
- ┓
In Programming
Developers use this symbol to build text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and design formatted console output, such as drawing thick borders around terminal prompts or plain-text tables.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI
TUI
bold border
border
box drawing
corner
dingbat
heavy
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text art
thick corner
unicode U+2513
unicode box drawing