┱
Box Drawings Right Light and Left Down Heavy
- Unicode
- U+2531
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┱
- CSS
- \2531
The ┱ (Box Drawing Right Light and Left Down Heavy) symbol is a legacy computing character originally used to design text-based user interfaces. It features a thick downward-pointing vertical line joined by an equally thick line to the left, while the line extending right stays thin, acting as a specialized T-junction for rendering table borders. Today, developers and artists use it in terminal emulators, command-line utilities, and ASCII art to construct structured visual grids and menus.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9521
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2531 then Space
- HTML
- ┱
In Programming
This character is frequently used in command-line interface (CLI) development, particularly with terminal control libraries like ncurses, to draw styled structural elements like file trees and datagrid borders.
Tags
ASCII art divider
CLI interface line
U+2531
border
box drawing
box drawing right light and left down heavy
dingbat
right light left down heavy
legacy computing character
mixed weight junction
t-junction
table
terminal table border
thick down and left thin right
top
unicode 2531
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