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U+2584 · LOWER HALF BLOCK

Lower Half Block

  • CodepointU+2584
  • NameLOWER HALF BLOCK
  • Decimal9604
  • 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+2584 (▄) is LOWER 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.

How to type ▄

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 96 843 bytes
UTF-1625841 code unit
UTF-32000025844 bytes
HTML named▄named character reference
HTML decimal▄
HTML hex▄
CSS\2584in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2584
JSON\u2584
Python\u2584
Python\N{LOWER HALF BLOCK}by name
Java / C#\u2584
C / C++\u2584universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2584}
Go\u2584
Ruby\u2584
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9604)
URL-encoded%E2%96%84percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in block →
U+2580▀Upper Half Block U+2581▁Lower One Eighth Block U+2582▂Lower One Quarter Block U+2583▃Lower Three Eighths 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