┴
Box Drawing 53
- Unicode
- U+2534
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┴
- CSS
- \2534
The ┴ symbol, officially known as the "Box Drawing Light Up And Horizontal" character, is a legacy text graphic originally used to build user interfaces in early command-line environments. It represents a bottom-edge T-junction, perfect for connecting the horizontal base of a text box to a vertical dividing line. Today, it remains popular in ASCII art, plain-text tables, and terminal applications to cleanly format structural borders without needing graphical elements.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+193 or Alt+9524
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 2534
- HTML
- ┴ or ┴
In Programming
Developers frequently use this character in command-line tools, log file formatting, and text-based UI libraries like ncurses to render clean directory trees, data tables, and interface borders in the console.
Tags
ASCII bottom edge
CLI grid bottom
U+2534
border
bottom
bottom T-junction
box drawing
box drawing light up and horizontal
dingbat
inverted T character
plain text formatting
t-junction
table
terminal divider
text table bottom border
unicode 2534
unicode box drawing
up and horizontal junction