Box Drawings Light Up And Right

Unicode U+2514 · Category: Box Drawing
Character
NameBox Drawings Light Up And Right
Unicode Code PointU+2514
Decimal Value9492
Hex Value0x2514
CategoryBox Drawing
Windows Alt CodeAlt+192
Word Alt+X Code2514 + Alt+X
Mac ShortcutNot available — use copy/paste
HTML Entity└
HTML Code (Dec / Hex)└ / └
CSS Content Codecontent: "\2514";
JavaScript Unicode Escape"\u{2514}"

About Box Drawings Light Up And Right

Box Drawings Light Up And Right 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+2514 (decimal 9492), Box Drawings Light Up And Right is the 21st 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: Terminal and command-line applications (like tree views, table output, or TUI apps) are the most common modern use case for this character set.

How to Type Box Drawings Light Up And Right

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Windows

Hold Alt and type 192 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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