╷
Box Drawings Light Down
- Unicode
- U+2577
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╷
- CSS
- \2577
The ╷ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Down character, is a legacy typographic element originally created for text-based user interfaces in early computing. It displays a thin, vertical line segment extending downward from the center of a character cell. While modern graphic interfaces have made box-drawing characters largely obsolete for standard apps, they remain highly popular for formatting plain-text tables, terminal directory trees, and ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9591
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "Box Drawing Light Down"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then type 2577 and press Enter
- HTML
- ╷
In Programming
Developers use this half-vertical line character to construct plain-text architectural diagrams, format command-line interface (CLI) outputs, and design custom terminal UI borders.
Tags
CLI
U+2577
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
directory tree
line segment
plain text
table
terminal UI
text graphics
unicode
vertical line
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