┟
Box Drawing 32
- Unicode
- U+251F
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┟
- CSS
- \251F
The ┟ symbol, officially named 'Box Drawing Down Heavy and Right Up Light', is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block originally used in legacy computing environments like DOS. It depicts a right-facing T-junction where the downward-pointing vertical line is thick, while the upward and rightward lines are thin. Today, developers and digital artists use it to construct text-based user interfaces (TUIs), terminal structural layouts, and intricate ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9503
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 251F
- HTML
- ┟
In Programming
Commonly utilized in terminal UI libraries (such as ncurses) and command-line interfaces to render clean structural borders, tables, and graphical dividers.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI structure
T-junction
TUI
border
box drawing
dingbat
down heavy
left
monospace design
table
terminal layout
three-way junction
unicode box drawing
up light