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U+258F · LEFT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK

Left One Eighth Block

  • CodepointU+258F
  • NameLEFT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK
  • Decimal9615
  • 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+258F (▏) is LEFT ONE EIGHTH 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.

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 96 8F3 bytes
UTF-16258F1 code unit
UTF-320000258F4 bytes
HTML decimal▏
HTML hex▏
CSS\258Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\u258F
JSON\u258F
Python\u258F
Python\N{LEFT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK}by name
Java / C#\u258F
C / C++\u258Funiversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{258F}
Go\u258F
Ruby\u258F
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9615)
URL-encoded%E2%96%8Fpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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 U+2590▐Right Half Block U+2591░Light Shade U+2592▒Medium Shade U+2593▓Dark Shade U+2594▔Upper One Eighth Block U+2595▕Right One Eighth Block