╒
Box Drawings Down Single and Right Double
- Unicode
- U+2552
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╒
- CSS
- \2552
The ╒ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawings Down Single and Right Double character, represents the top-left corner of a text-based graphical box. Originating from legacy computing systems like MS-DOS and early terminal interfaces, it allows users to construct tables and borders using plain text. Today, it remains popular in command-line tools, ASCII art, and retro-themed typography to create rigid, structured layouts.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9554
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 2552
- HTML
- ╒
In Programming
This character is frequently used in command-line interface (CLI) development to generate text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and format console output into readable tables. Programmers combine it with other box-drawing characters to render distinct headers or highlighted sections within terminal logs.
Tags
ASCII art corner
CLI table corner
U+2552
border
box corner symbol
box drawing
dingbat
double line
frame
mixed line box drawing
retro terminal
single and double line
table
text frame corner
top-left 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