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U+258E · LEFT ONE QUARTER BLOCK

Left One Quarter Block

  • CodepointU+258E
  • NameLEFT ONE QUARTER BLOCK
  • Decimal9614
  • 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+258E (▎) is LEFT ONE QUARTER 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 8E3 bytes
UTF-16258E1 code unit
UTF-320000258E4 bytes
HTML decimal▎
HTML hex▎
CSS\258Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u258E
JSON\u258E
Python\u258E
Python\N{LEFT ONE QUARTER BLOCK}by name
Java / C#\u258E
C / C++\u258Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{258E}
Go\u258E
Ruby\u258E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9614)
URL-encoded%E2%96%8Epercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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+258D▍Left Three Eighths Block U+258F▏Left One Eighth Block U+2590▐Right Half Block U+2591░Light Shade U+2592▒Medium Shade U+2593▓Dark Shade U+2594▔Upper One Eighth Block