┖
Box Drawing 23
- Unicode
- U+2516
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┖
- CSS
- \2516
The ┖ (Box Drawing Up Heavy And Right Light) symbol is a legacy computing character originally designed to draw tables, frames, and menus in early text-based interfaces. It represents a bottom-left corner where the upward-facing vertical line is thick and the right-facing horizontal line is thin. Today, it remains widely used in ASCII art, command-line environments, and terminal dashboards to create structured visual layouts.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9494
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2516
- HTML
- ┖
In Programming
Developers use this symbol in command-line interfaces (CLIs) and terminal-based applications to render clean borders, text boxes, or directory trees entirely in plain text.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI
TUI
border
box drawing
corner
dingbat
heavy
heavy up
retro computing
table
terminal UI
terminal dashboard
text art
unicode U+2516
unicode box drawing