┑
Box Drawings Down Light and Left Heavy
- Unicode
- U+2511
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┑
- CSS
- \2511
The ┑ symbol, officially named Box Drawing Down Light and Left Heavy, is a legacy computing character used to construct top-right corners in text-based interfaces. Originating from early DOS and terminal environments, it connects a thick horizontal line on the left with a thin vertical line pointing down. Today, developers and retro-computing enthusiasts primarily use it to design ASCII art, structure text-based tables, and build terminal user interfaces (TUIs).
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9489
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2511
- HTML
- ┑
In Programming
Developers use this character in command-line interfaces (CLI) and console applications to render graphical borders, wireframes, and nested menus without relying on external graphical UI libraries.
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+2511
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