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U+258B · LEFT FIVE EIGHTHS BLOCK

Left Five Eighths Block

  • CodepointU+258B
  • NameLEFT FIVE EIGHTHS BLOCK
  • Decimal9611
  • 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+258B (▋) is LEFT FIVE EIGHTHS 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 8B3 bytes
UTF-16258B1 code unit
UTF-320000258B4 bytes
HTML decimal▋
HTML hex▋
CSS\258Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u258B
JSON\u258B
Python\u258B
Python\N{LEFT FIVE EIGHTHS BLOCK}by name
Java / C#\u258B
C / C++\u258Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{258B}
Go\u258B
Ruby\u258B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9611)
URL-encoded%E2%96%8Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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+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