┲
Box Drawings Left Light and Right Down Heavy
- Unicode
- U+2532
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┲
- CSS
- \2532
The ┲ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Left Light and Right Down Heavy, is a text-based graphical character used to construct borders and structural grids. Originating from legacy computing eras like MS-DOS and early terminal systems, it allows developers to draw complex, mixed-weight frames entirely out of plain text. Today, it remains popular in command-line utilities, ASCII art, and retro-styled text documents to neatly format tables and interface layouts.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9522
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, then search "box drawing down light and right heavy"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U, then type 2532 and press Enter
- HTML
- ┲
In Programming
Developers use this character in terminal-based user interfaces (TUIs) and command-line scripts to render visual boundaries, text-based tables, and directory structures.
Tags
ASCII frame builder
CLI border design
MS-DOS border character
U+2532
border
box drawing
box drawing left light and right down heavy
dingbat
left light right down heavy
mixed weight t-junction
retro computing text
t-junction
table
terminal grid character
top
unicode 2532
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