┎
Box Drawings Down Heavy and Right Light
- Unicode
- U+250E
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┎
- CSS
- \250E
The ┎ symbol, officially named "Box Drawing Down Heavy and Right Light," is a legacy computing character used to build text-based user interfaces. It forms the top-left corner of a grid or frame, featuring a thick vertical line and a thin horizontal line. While originating from early terminal and MS-DOS environments, it is still widely used today for creating ASCII art, formatting plain-text tables, and designing modern command-line interfaces.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9486
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 250e
- HTML
- ┎
In Programming
Developers use this character to construct graphical borders, structured tables, and user interface frames within command-line tools, scripts, and plain-text console outputs.
Tags
ASCII art corner
CLI table corner
border
box drawing
corner
dingbat
down heavy right light
heavy
mixed weight box corner
table
terminal border corner
thick vertical thin horizontal
top left corner unicode
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