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U+258D · LEFT THREE EIGHTHS BLOCK

Left Three Eighths Block

  • CodepointU+258D
  • NameLEFT THREE EIGHTHS BLOCK
  • Decimal9613
  • 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+258D (▍) is LEFT THREE 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 8D3 bytes
UTF-16258D1 code unit
UTF-320000258D4 bytes
HTML decimal▍
HTML hex▍
CSS\258Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u258D
JSON\u258D
Python\u258D
Python\N{LEFT THREE EIGHTHS BLOCK}by name
Java / C#\u258D
C / C++\u258Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{258D}
Go\u258D
Ruby\u258D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9613)
URL-encoded%E2%96%8Dpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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+258C▌Left Half 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 U+2593▓Dark Shade