Box Drawing 24

Unicode
U+2517
Category
Dingbats
HTML Entity
┗
CSS
\2517
The ┗ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Heavy Up And Right, represents the thick bottom-left corner of a graphical box. Originally designed for retro text-based computing environments, it lets you draw continuous, bold-lined grids and frames using only text characters. Today, you will spot it structuring terminal outputs, mapping out directory trees, or adding geometric flair to ASCII art.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+9495
macOS
Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+U then 2517
HTML
┗

In Programming

Developers use this character in command-line tools to visually organize output, such as formatting data tables or rendering nested directory structures. It serves as a foundational building block for text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and terminal UI libraries.

Tags

ASCII art CLI TUI bold corner border box drawing corner dingbat directory tree heavy retro computing table terminal UI text art thick border unicode U+2517 unicode box drawing

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