┬
Box Drawings Light Down and Horizontal
- Unicode
- U+252C
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┬
- CSS
- \252C
The ┬ symbol, officially known as the Box Drawing Light Down and Horizontal character, is a legacy computing symbol originally designed for text-based user interfaces. It forms a top-edge 'T-junction', connecting a continuous horizontal line with a vertical line extending downwards. Today, it remains widely used in ASCII art, command-line tools, and plain-text diagrams to structure grids and draw tables without relying on graphical elements.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9516
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 252C
- HTML
- ┬
In Programming
In programming, the ┬ character is frequently used in console applications and terminal scripts to render formatted data tables, construct directory trees, and design UI borders within standard text outputs.
Tags
ASCII table
CLI grid
TUI
border
box drawing
box drawing top
dingbat
down and horizontal
horizontal with branch
monospace table header
t-junction
table
terminal UI
text diagram
top
top T-junction
unicode U+252C
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