┌
Box Drawings Light Down and Right
- Unicode
- U+250C
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┌
- CSS
- \250C
The ┌ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Light Down and Right, is a structural character originally used in legacy computing to create text-based user interfaces. It forms the top-left corner of a thin-lined box or table. Today, you will frequently see it used in command-line tools, plain text documents, and intricate ASCII art to frame content neatly.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+218 or Alt+9484
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 250c
- HTML
- ┌
In Programming
Developers use this character to draw tables, frames, and tree-like directory structures directly in terminal outputs and plain text logs. It is a staple in command-line interface (CLI) design for creating visually distinct boundaries without using graphical elements.
Tags
ASCII art box
ASCII box corner
CLI table corner
border
box drawing
box frame
corner
dingbat
directory tree
table
terminal border
text frame corner
top left
top left corner unicode
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