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U+2580 · UPPER HALF BLOCK

Upper Half Block

  • CodepointU+2580
  • NameUPPER HALF BLOCK
  • Decimal9600
  • BlockBlock Elements (U+2580–U+259F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2580 (▀) is UPPER HALF BLOCK, a symbol in the Block Elements block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 96 803 bytes
UTF-1625801 code unit
UTF-32000025804 bytes
HTML named▀named character reference
HTML decimal▀
HTML hex▀
CSS\2580in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2580
JSON\u2580
Python\u2580
Python\N{UPPER HALF BLOCK}by name
Java / C#\u2580
C / C++\u2580universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2580}
Go\u2580
Ruby\u2580
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9600)
URL-encoded%E2%96%80percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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