╒
Box Drawing 83
- Unicode
- U+2552
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╒
- CSS
- \2552
The ╒ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawings Down Single and Right Double character, represents the top-left corner of a text-based graphical box. Originating from legacy computing systems like MS-DOS and early terminal interfaces, it allows users to construct tables and borders using plain text. Today, it remains popular in command-line tools, ASCII art, and retro-themed typography to create rigid, structured layouts.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9554
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 2552
- HTML
- ╒
In Programming
This character is frequently used in command-line interface (CLI) development to generate text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and format console output into readable tables. Programmers combine it with other box-drawing characters to render distinct headers or highlighted sections within terminal logs.
Tags
ASCII art corner
CLI table corner
U+2552
border
box corner symbol
box drawing
dingbat
double line
frame
mixed line box drawing
retro terminal
single and double line
table
text frame corner
top-left corner