┱
Box Drawing 50
- Unicode
- U+2531
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┱
- CSS
- \2531
The ┱ (Box Drawing Down Heavy and Horizontal Light) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used to design text-based user interfaces. It features a thin horizontal line intersected by a thick downward-pointing vertical line, acting as a specialized T-junction for rendering table borders. Today, developers and artists use it in terminal emulators, command-line utilities, and ASCII art to construct structured visual grids and menus.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9521
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2531 then Space
- HTML
- ┱
In Programming
This character is frequently used in command-line interface (CLI) development, particularly with terminal control libraries like ncurses, to draw styled structural elements like file trees and datagrid borders.
Tags
ASCII art divider
CLI interface line
U+2531
border
box drawing
box drawing down heavy and horizontal light
dingbat
down heavy horizontal light
legacy computing character
mixed weight junction
t-junction
table
terminal table border
thick down thin horizontal
top
unicode 2531
unicode box drawing