┟
Box Drawings Down Heavy and Right Up Light
- Unicode
- U+251F
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┟
- CSS
- \251F
The ┟ symbol, officially named 'Box Drawing Down Heavy and Right Up Light', is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block originally used in legacy computing environments like DOS. It depicts a right-facing T-junction where the downward-pointing vertical line is thick, while the upward and rightward lines are thin. Today, developers and digital artists use it to construct text-based user interfaces (TUIs), terminal structural layouts, and intricate ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9503
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 251F
- HTML
- ┟
In Programming
Commonly utilized in terminal UI libraries (such as ncurses) and command-line interfaces to render clean structural borders, tables, and graphical dividers.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI structure
T-junction
TUI
border
box drawing
dingbat
down heavy
left
monospace design
table
terminal layout
three-way junction
unicode box drawing
up light
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