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U+258C · LEFT HALF BLOCK

Left Half Block

  • CodepointU+258C
  • NameLEFT HALF BLOCK
  • Decimal9612
  • 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+258C (▌) is LEFT 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 8C3 bytes
UTF-16258C1 code unit
UTF-320000258C4 bytes
HTML decimal▌
HTML hex▌
CSS\258Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u258C
JSON\u258C
Python\u258C
Python\N{LEFT HALF BLOCK}by name
Java / C#\u258C
C / C++\u258Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{258C}
Go\u258C
Ruby\u258C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9612)
URL-encoded%E2%96%8Cpercent-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+2590▐Right Half Block
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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+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