└
Box Drawings Light Up and Right
- Unicode
- U+2514
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- └
- CSS
- \2514
The └ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Light Up and Right, is a legacy computing character originally used to build text-based graphical user interfaces. Today, it is most commonly used in terminal applications and command-line tools to visually map out file directory trees. You will also spot it in online forums, documentation, and social media to clearly connect threaded replies or diagram branching paths.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9492 or Win+. then search
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2514
- HTML
- └ or └
In Programming
Frequently utilized in command-line tools, logging libraries, and plain-text outputs to cleanly format hierarchical data, such as visualizing folder directories (like the Unix `tree` command) or nested dependencies.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI
TUI
border
bottom left
box drawing
corner
dingbat
directory tree
file tree
ls tree
table
terminal UI
text art
threaded reply
tree command
unicode U+2514
unicode box drawing
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