┪
Box Drawings Up Light and Left Down Heavy
- Unicode
- U+252A
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┪
- CSS
- \252A
The ┪ (Box Drawing Up Light and Left Down Heavy) symbol is a legacy character originally designed for text-based terminal interfaces to create structured graphical layouts. It forms part of a vertical border with a left-facing branch, featuring a thin upper stroke alongside thick lower and leftward strokes. Today, it is primarily used in retro computing aesthetics, ASCII art, and command-line interfaces to draw intricate grid patterns and UI frames.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9514
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- HTML
- ┪
In Programming
This character is utilized in command-line interface (CLI) development and terminal scripts to construct text-based tables, menus, and directory trees. It helps delineate sections of a user interface where mixed line weights represent distinct hierarchical boundaries.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI border
left-facing T-junction
TUI
border
box drawing
dingbat
retro computing
right
left down heavy
t-junction
table
terminal UI
text table
thin upper stroke
unicode U+252A
up light down heavy
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