╱
Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left
- Unicode
- U+2571
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╱
- CSS
- \2571
The ╱ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left, is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block. Originally designed for legacy computing environments to create text-based graphics and tables, it represents a continuous, lightweight diagonal line. Today, it is commonly used in ASCII art, terminal interfaces, and creative typography to form intricate shapes or stylized dividers.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9585
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing" or use Unicode Hex Input (Option+2571)
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2571 then Space/Enter
- HTML
- ╱
In Programming
In programming and terminal environments, this symbol is primarily used to draw command-line interfaces (CLIs) and text-based UI components. It serves as a visual layout element rather than a functional operator like the standard forward slash (/).
Tags
U+2571
ascii art slash
box drawing
diagonal
diagonal line
dingbat
forward slash
line
oblique line
slant
slash
terminal graphics
text divider
unicode slash
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