╔
Box Drawings Double Down and Right
- Unicode
- U+2554
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╔
- CSS
- \2554
The ╔ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Double Down and Right character, originates from legacy computing systems like MS-DOS. It represents the top-left corner of a double-lined box and was originally created to build text-based user interfaces. Today, programmers and designers still use it in ASCII art, terminal emulators, and text formatting to draw clean, stylized borders.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+201 or Alt+9556
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 2554 Space
- HTML
- ╔
In Programming
Developers use this character extensively in command-line interfaces (CLI) and console applications to render double-lined borders, menus, and structured data tables.
Tags
ASCII art corner
CP437 corner
Code Page 437
MS-DOS border corner
U+2554
border
box drawing
dingbat
double box drawing corner
double line
double line corner
frame
retro terminal
table
text box corner
top-left double corner
Related Symbols
─
Box Drawings Light Horizontal
━
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal
│
Box Drawings Light Vertical
┃
Box Drawings Heavy Vertical
┄
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Horizontal
┅
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal
┆
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical
┇
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical
┈
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┉
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal
┊
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical
┋
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical