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box drawings double up and left

Box Drawings Double Up and Left

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╝ is the lower-right corner of a double-line text box: the spot where a double vertical line turns left into a double horizontal one. It closes borders in terminal menus, plain-text tables and ASCII-style art. On its own it means nothing; it reads as a box corner only next to matching double strokes.

Text symbol

What ╝ means

It closes the bottom-right of a double-line box. Put it at the end of the bottom double line, directly under the right-hand double line.

It comes from 1980s text-mode computing. The IBM PC's built-in character set, code page 437, included single and double line pieces so programs could draw windows, menus and tables on screens that could only show text. Unicode later took these pieces over, which is why the same corner still turns up in terminal programs and DOS-style art.

How do I keep a text box aligned?

Build the whole box from the double-line set: for horizontal runs, for sides, and ╝ for corners. Mixing in single-line pieces leaves visible joins that don't meet.

Use a monospaced font, where every character has the same width, or a code block. In a proportional font, a missing glyph or a terminal with different character widths, the lines drift apart even when the characters are correct.

Part of the collection

Don't confuse it with

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Combination ideas

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Bottom border of a double-line frame.
Small double-line box around a word.
Bottom border of a two-column double-line table.

Questions people ask

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Why does ╝ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

Collections with ╝

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How to type or find ╝

Also called
double box corner · lower-right double corner
Search it as
double corner · box corner · lower right corner · double line box · terminal box · cp437 corner · alt 188
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 255D, then AltX to get ╝.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “box drawings double up and left”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 255d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
╝
CSS
\255D
Windows Alt code
Hold Alt and type 188 on the numeric keypad (Num Lock on) in apps that accept Alt codes.
Why 188
In code page 437 the corner sits at byte 188 (hex BC), the number Windows Alt codes still use.
Microsoft Word
Type 255D, then press AltX to convert it.
Linux (GTK apps)
Press CtrlShiftU, type 255d, then press Enter or Space.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
╝
HTML hex
╝
CSS content
content: "\255D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%95%9D
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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