┪
Box Drawing 43
- Unicode
- U+252A
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┪
- CSS
- \252A
The ┪ (Box Drawing Up Heavy and Right Down Light) symbol is a legacy character originally designed for text-based terminal interfaces to create structured graphical layouts. It forms part of a vertical border with a right-facing branch, featuring a thick upper stroke alongside thin lower and rightward strokes. Today, it is primarily used in retro computing aesthetics, ASCII art, and command-line interfaces to draw intricate grid patterns and UI frames.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9514
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- HTML
- ┪
In Programming
This character is utilized in command-line interface (CLI) development and terminal scripts to construct text-based tables, menus, and directory trees. It helps delineate sections of a user interface where mixed line weights represent distinct hierarchical boundaries.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI border
T-junction top
TUI
border
box drawing
dingbat
retro computing
right
right down light
t-junction
table
terminal UI
text table
thick upper stroke
unicode U+252A
up heavy down light