┢
Box Drawings Up Light and Right Down Heavy
- Unicode
- U+2522
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┢
- CSS
- \2522
The ┢ symbol, officially named Box Drawing Up Light And Right Down Heavy, is a typographic character used to build text-based borders and tables. It forms a right-facing "T" intersection featuring a thin upper vertical segment combined with thick lower and rightward segments. Originating from legacy computing systems, developers and designers still use it today to create retro terminal interfaces, command-line tools, and intricate ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9506
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'box drawing'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2522
- HTML
- ┢
In Programming
Developers use this symbol in text-based user interface (TUI) libraries like ncurses to render custom table borders, window frames, and structured data grids in terminal applications.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI table
T-junction
TUI
border
box drawing
dingbat
left
legacy computing
monospace
right down heavy
table
terminal UI
text art
unicode box drawing
up light
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