Box Drawings Light Down And Right Symbol

A symbol from the Box Drawing Symbols collection. Click the symbol or the button below to copy.

Box Drawing Symbols collection

Symbol: ┌
Unicode: U+250C
HTML entity: ┌
Category: Box Drawing Symbols

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About the box drawings light down and right symbol

You will often encounter this character in terminal emulators, command-line interfaces, and plain-text diagrams where it serves as the top-left corner of a box or border. It represents a single light stroke extending downward and to the right from its starting point.

As part of the Box Drawing block, this symbol is designed to be combined with other line-drawing characters to form rectangular frames, tables, and simple charts in fixed-width text environments. It is a common, non-emoji symbol used wherever precise text-based layout is needed.

How to type Box Drawings Light Down And Right

Native keyboard shortcuts for each operating system — derived from the codepoint, so the steps below are always accurate.

Windows

2 options

In Word / Outlook: type 250C then press Alt + X.
Anywhere: press Win + . to open the emoji & symbol picker, then search.

macOS

2 options

Enable “Unicode Hex Input” in System Settings → Keyboard, then hold Option and type 250C.
Or: Control + Command + Space opens the Character Viewer — search by name.