What ┏ means
It joins the heavy top edge to the heavy left edge. Put it at a text box’s top-left, where the frame turns down the side.
The broader family continues a character-cell graphics tradition used before 1990, when computers built frames from aligned text. IBM PC Code Page 437, a computer character set, included related line-drawing symbols. Videotex, a text-based information service, also distinguished light and heavy strokes in standards from November 1988.
Why does ┏ look broken?
The text may no longer line up by character cell. These strokes are designed to meet at each cell’s midpoint. Proportional spacing, mixed fallback fonts, or altered line height can leave gaps or change the apparent weight.
A monospaced font keeps a diagram’s columns aligned. If the symbol appears as an empty square, the active font or app lacks a usable glyph; choose a font that includes it.
How can I type ┏?
On Windows, Character Map provides a built-in way to insert it. In source code or text formats that support Unicode escapes, \u250F represents the character.
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1Is ┏ an ASCII character?
No. It belongs to the wider line-drawing repertoire used by computer character sets; plain ASCII typically sketches a corner with and edges with - and .
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How to type or find ┏
- Also called
- heavy top-left corner · thick text-box corner · box-drawing corner
- Search it as
- heavy corner · text box · box drawing corner · terminal menu · text table · Unicode box drawing · TUI border
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
┏\250F\u250F.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.