┕
Box Drawings Up Light and Right Heavy
- Unicode
- U+2515
- Category
- Box Drawing
- HTML Entity
- ┕
- CSS
- \2515
The ┕ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Up Light and Right Heavy, is a legacy computing character used to construct text-based graphics. It forms the bottom-left corner of a geometric box or acts as an ending branch in a visual tree hierarchy. Originally popularized in MS-DOS and early terminal interfaces, it remains widely used today in command-line tools to render elegant directory structures and ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9493
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2515
- HTML
- ┕
In Programming
Developers frequently use this character in command-line interface (CLI) applications to generate visually readable directory trees, dependency graphs, and text-based tables in standard terminal outputs.
Tags
ASCII art
CLI
TUI
border
box drawing
corner
dingbat
directory tree
heavy
heavy right
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text art
unicode U+2515
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