┒
Box Drawings Down Heavy and Left Light
- Unicode
- U+2512
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┒
- CSS
- \2512
The ┒ (Box Drawing Down Heavy And Left Light) symbol is a text-based graphical character originally designed for legacy computing systems and terminal interfaces. It represents a top-right corner piece of a box where the downward vertical line is thick (heavy) and the leftward horizontal line is thin (light). Today, developers and ASCII artists use this character to design retro text-user interfaces (TUIs), format plain-text tables, and create intricate structural designs in code comments.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9490
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2512 then Space
- HTML
- ┒
In Programming
Used extensively in command-line interfaces (CLIs) and terminal UI libraries like ncurses to construct visually distinct plain-text borders. It specifically helps create structural boxes where vertical boundaries require a heavier visual weight than horizontal dividing lines.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI
TUI
border
box corner
box drawing
corner
dingbat
heavy
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text art
text-based interface
unicode U+2512
unicode box drawing
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