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╷

box drawings light down

Light Down Box-Drawing Character

╷ is a short downward stroke used as one piece in box drawing: it helps make a text border or diagram. By itself, it is a construction mark rather than a conversational sign. Its strokes align only in a monospaced font with compatible box-drawing widths.

Text symbol

Search it as: box drawing · text border · short downward stroke · terminal graphics
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ╷ means

It is a short downward stroke within one character cell. Use it as one piece of a text border or terminal diagram, alongside matching box-drawing characters.

The wider box-drawing repertoire grew from standards used before 1990 to assemble panels, tables, and interface graphics from character cells. Its history includes IBM PC Code Page 437, national character sets such as GB 2312 and KS X 1001, and terminal graphics; Unicode also aligned related forms with Videotex mosaic characters to support interoperability.

Technical and diagrammatic: it signals a constructed text graphic rather than conversation.

Don't confuse it with

╵

Box Drawings Light Up

This matching short stroke rises from the bottom; ╷ descends from the top.

│

Box Drawings Light Vertical

This is a full-height light vertical line; ╷ stops around the cell's midpoint.

Questions people ask

Why does a box-drawing border look crooked?

Usually, the font's character widths do not match. Use a monospaced font with compatible box-drawing glyphs so each cell stays aligned.

How to type ╷

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 2577, then Alt+X 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 light down”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 2577, then Enter or Space.

HTML

╷

CSS

\2577

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

╷

HTML hex

╷

CSS content

content: "\2577";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%95%B7

On screen

Code points

JS .length

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

Lines & boxes160 symbols

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