┓
Box Drawings Heavy Down and Left
- Unicode
- U+2513
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┓
- CSS
- \2513
The ┓ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Heavy Down And Left, is a typographic character used to create the top-right corner of a thick-lined border. Originating from legacy computing environments like DOS and early text terminals, it allowed developers to draw graphical interfaces using plain text. Today, it remains popular in ASCII art, retro terminal styling, and plain-text structural layouts.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9491
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 2513
- HTML
- ┓
In Programming
Developers use this symbol to build text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and design formatted console output, such as drawing thick borders around terminal prompts or plain-text tables.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI
TUI
bold border
border
box drawing
corner
dingbat
heavy
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text art
thick corner
unicode U+2513
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