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U+2588 · FULL BLOCK

Full Block

  • CodepointU+2588
  • NameFULL BLOCK
  • Decimal9608
  • 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+2588 (█) is FULL 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 96 883 bytes
UTF-1625881 code unit
UTF-32000025884 bytes
HTML named█named character reference
HTML decimal█
HTML hex█
CSS\2588in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2588
JSON\u2588
Python\u2588
Python\N{FULL BLOCK}by name
Java / C#\u2588
C / C++\u2588universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2588}
Go\u2588
Ruby\u2588
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9608)
URL-encoded%E2%96%88percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+220E∎End of Proof U+25A0■Black Square
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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+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