┹
Box Drawings Right Light and Left Up Heavy
- Unicode
- U+2539
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┹
- CSS
- \2539
The ┹ (Box Drawing Right Light and Left Up Heavy) symbol is a legacy graphical character originally used to create tables, grids, and user interfaces in text-based environments like MS-DOS. It connects a thick upward vertical line and a thick line to the left, while the line extending right stays thin. Today, developers and digital artists still use it in ASCII art, terminal emulators, and command-line tools to structure visual layouts without relying on modern graphics.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9529
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 2539
- HTML
- ┹
In Programming
Software developers use this symbol within Text-based User Interfaces (TUIs) and command-line tools to draw structured borders around terminal output. It is often implemented using libraries like ncurses to build readable, grid-based layouts directly in the console.
Tags
ASCII art
MS-DOS
TUI
border
bottom
box drawing
command-line
dingbat
grid character
line drawing
retro computing
t-junction
table
terminal UI
text-based interface
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