Box Drawings Light Up And Left 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+2518
HTML entity: ┘
Category: Box Drawing Symbols

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About the box drawings light up and left symbol

The character is typically read as "box drawings light up and left" or simply called a corner piece. It forms the lower-right corner of a box drawn with single-weight lines, connecting a horizontal line to the left with a vertical line going upward.

This symbol is found in text-based interfaces, such as terminal applications, command-line tools, and early computer user interfaces, where it helps create simple rectangular borders or frames around content. It also appears in plain-text diagrams, ASCII art, and structured data displays where lightweight box-drawing characters are used to organize information visually.

How to type Box Drawings Light Up And Left

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 2518 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 2518.
Or: Control + Command + Space opens the Character Viewer — search by name.