╙
Box Drawings Up Double and Right Single
- Unicode
- U+2559
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ╙
- CSS
- \2559
The ╙ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Up Double and Right Single, is a specialized text character originating from legacy computing. It acts as a bottom-left corner piece where a double-line vertical wall connects to a single-line horizontal floor. Today, it remains popular in terminal applications, ASCII art, and retro text-based user interfaces (TUIs) for creating structured grids and decorative borders.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9561 or type 2559 then Alt+X
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2559
- HTML
- ╙
In Programming
Used heavily in command-line interface (CLI) scripts and terminal emulators to render tables, menus, and visual boundaries entirely out of plain text.
Tags
ASCII box corner
HTML entity 9561
TUI
border
bottom-left corner
box drawing
dingbat
double line
double vertical single horizontal
frame
mixed line corner
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text border
unicode 2559
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