┞
Box Drawings Up Heavy and Right Down Light
- Unicode
- U+251E
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┞
- CSS
- \251E
The ┞ (Box Drawing Up Heavy and Right Down Light) symbol is a text-based graphical character belonging to the Unicode Box Drawing block. Originally essential for constructing structural grids and user interfaces in legacy terminal environments like MS-DOS, it features a vertical line whose upper half is thick, branching into a thin lower segment and a thin horizontal line to the right. Today, it remains a staple in command-line interface (CLI) design, monospaced text formatting, and retro ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 9502
- macOS
- Option + 251E (with Unicode Hex Input keyboard enabled)
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U, 251e, Space
- HTML
- ┞
In Programming
Developers use this character in terminal outputs and command-line applications to render structured user interface elements like data tables or directory trees. It is specifically designed to visually connect a heavy outer text-window border with a light inner dividing row.
Tags
ASCII table
CLI design
MS-DOS text art
T-junction
TUI
border
box drawing
dingbat
up heavy
left
light right
mixed weight
monospace
table
terminal UI
unicode box
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