BLOCK · U+2580 – U+259F · 32 CHARS

The Block Elements block

32 assigned characters in Plane 0 (Basic Multilingual Plane).

The Block Elements block spans U+2580–U+259F, 32 codepoints in Plane 0 (Basic Multilingual Plane). Every one of them is assigned in Unicode 16.0.

All of its characters have the script value Common: they are shared across writing systems rather than tied to one.

By general category: 32 other symbols (So).

The first 22 arrived in Unicode 1.1 (1993); later additions came in 3.2 (10).

32

Assigned characters

32

Codepoints in range

0

Plane

1.1

First version

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All 32 characters

U+2580▀Upper Half Block U+2581▁Lower One Eighth Block U+2582▂Lower One Quarter Block U+2583▃Lower Three Eighths Block U+2584▄Lower Half Block U+2585▅Lower Five Eighths Block U+2586▆Lower Three Quarters Block U+2587▇Lower Seven Eighths Block U+2588█Full Block U+2589▉Left Seven Eighths Block U+258A▊Left Three Quarters Block U+258B▋Left Five Eighths Block U+258C▌Left Half Block U+258D▍Left Three Eighths Block U+258E▎Left One Quarter Block U+258F▏Left One Eighth Block U+2590▐Right Half Block U+2591░Light Shade U+2592▒Medium Shade U+2593▓Dark Shade U+2594▔Upper One Eighth Block U+2595▕Right One Eighth Block U+2596▖Quadrant Lower Left U+2597▗Quadrant Lower Right U+2598▘Quadrant Upper Left U+2599▙Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Left and Lower Right U+259A▚Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Right U+259B▛Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right and Lower Left U+259C▜Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right and Lower Right U+259D▝Quadrant Upper Right U+259E▞Quadrant Upper Right and Lower Left U+259F▟Quadrant Upper Right and Lower Left and Lower Right