╲
Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left to Lower Right
- Unicode
- U+2572
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╲
- CSS
- \2572
The ╲ symbol represents a light diagonal line extending from the upper left to the lower right, belonging to the Unicode Box Drawing block. Originally introduced for legacy computing systems to construct text-based user interfaces, this character helped create rudimentary graphics before modern pixel displays became standard. Today, it remains popular in ASCII art, terminal emulators, and plain text formatting to draw geometric shapes or connect visual elements.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9586
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2572
- HTML
- ╲
In Programming
Developers use this character in text-based user interfaces (TUIs), command-line applications, and ncurses environments to draw scalable borders, graphs, and ASCII graphics without relying on a GUI.
Tags
U+2572
ascii art backslash
back diagonal
backslash
box drawing
diagonal
dingbat
line
oblique line
reverse slash
slash
terminal graphics
text backslash
unicode backslash
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