╆
Box Drawing 71
- Unicode
- U+2546
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╆
- CSS
- \2546
The ╆ (Box Drawing Heavy Down and Light Right) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used to design text-based user interfaces and tables in terminal environments. It forms the top-left corner of a box where the downward vertical boundary is drawn with a thick line and the rightward horizontal boundary uses a thin line. Today, developers and retro-computing enthusiasts still use it to create ASCII art, command-line menus, and structured plain-text layouts.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9542 or type 2546 then Alt+X
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U, type 2546, then Enter
- HTML
- ╆ or ╆
In Programming
Programmers use this symbol when building command-line interface (CLI) applications to draw structured borders around text menus or output logs. It is particularly effective for differentiating a thick outer frame from thin internal grid lines in terminal formatting.
Tags
CLI
TUI
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
corner symbol
cross
dingbat
heavy down light right
intersection
mixed weight corner
monospace
retro computing
table
terminal ui
text graphics
top-left corner
unicode box drawing