┍
Box Drawings Down Light and Right Heavy
- Unicode
- U+250D
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┍
- CSS
- \250D
The ┍ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Down Light and Right Heavy character, forms the top-left corner of a text-based box or table. Originating from legacy computing systems like MS-DOS to create user interfaces in text mode, it belongs to the Unicode Box Drawing block. Today, developers and digital artists use it for ASCII art, command-line interface design, and creative text layouts on social media.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9485
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 250d
- HTML
- ┍
In Programming
Developers frequently use this character in command-line interface (CLI) applications to draw file directory trees and structure tabular data purely in text.
Tags
ASCII box corner
CLI table border
border
box drawing
corner
dingbat
heavy
heavy right light down
mixed weight corner
table
text frame corner
top left box corner
unicode box drawing 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