Box Drawings Light Up And Left

Unicode U+2518 · Category: Box Drawing
Character
NameBox Drawings Light Up And Left
Unicode Code PointU+2518
Decimal Value9496
Hex Value0x2518
CategoryBox Drawing
Windows Alt CodeAlt+217
Word Alt+X Code2518 + Alt+X
Mac ShortcutNot available — use copy/paste
HTML Entity┘
HTML Code (Dec / Hex)┘ / ┘
CSS Content Codecontent: "\2518";
JavaScript Unicode Escape"\u{2518}"

About Box Drawings Light Up And Left

Box Drawings Light Up And Left is a box-drawing character used to construct borders, tables, and frames directly out of text characters — a technique still used today in terminal applications, ASCII art, and command-line tool interfaces.

Unicode block: Box Drawing (U+2500–U+257F). Box-drawing characters originate from early IBM PC "code page 437" graphics, used to draw borders, tables, and simple UI frames in text-mode DOS applications before graphical interfaces existed.

At Unicode code point U+2518 (decimal 9496), Box Drawings Light Up And Left is the 25th of 128 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, it has a documented Windows Alt code, though no dedicated single-key Mac shortcut — Mac users generally rely on copy-paste for it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.

💡 Good to know: For these characters to align correctly into clean borders, you must use a monospace font — in a proportional font, box-drawing characters will not connect properly.

How to Type Box Drawings Light Up And Left

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Windows

Hold Alt and type 217 on the numeric keypad.

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Mac

No dedicated shortcut — click the copy button above and paste with Cmd+V.

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Copy & Paste

Click the symbol above to copy it, then paste anywhere — works on every device and OS.

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Web / HTML

Use the entity ┘ in your HTML.

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