┺
Box Drawing 59
- Unicode
- U+253A
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ┺
- CSS
- \253A
The ┺ (Box Drawing Up Light and Right Down Heavy) symbol is a text-based graphic character originally used to build structured tables and interfaces in legacy computing environments. It forms a right-pointing T-intersection where the bottom and right lines are thick, while the top line is thin. Today, developers and digital artists rely on it to design retro command-line dashboards, text-based games, and intricate ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9530
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 253A
- HTML
- ┺
In Programming
Programmers use this symbol alongside other box-drawing characters to render graphical user interfaces, tables, and grids directly within command-line applications. It helps visually structure data output in text-only terminals without requiring external graphical libraries.
Tags
ANSI art
ASCII art
TUI
border
bottom
box drawing
command-line
dingbat
grid character
line drawing
retro computing
t-junction
table
terminal UI
text-based interface
unicode box drawing