╮
Box Drawings Light Arc Down and Left
- Unicode
- U+256E
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╮
- CSS
- \256E
The ╮ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Arc Down And Left, is a structural character originally designed for legacy computing systems. Part of the Unicode Box Drawing block, it was historically used to create text-based user interfaces and render the rounded top-right corners of terminal windows. Today, internet users primarily use this symbol in creative text art and kaomoji, most notably in shrugging emoticons like ╮(￣▽￣)╭ to convey indifference, helplessness, or mild confusion.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9582 (on numeric keypad)
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space, then search "arc down and left"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U, type 256E, then Enter
- HTML
- ╮
In Programming
In software development, this character is frequently used when building command-line interfaces (CLIs) or console applications to draw aesthetically pleasing, rounded bounding boxes around text.
Tags
U+256E
border
box drawing
corner
dingbat
helplessness
indifference
kaomoji
rounded
rounded corner
shrug emoticon
table
text art
top right 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