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U+2591 · LIGHT SHADE

Light Shade

CodepointU+2591
NameLIGHT SHADE
Decimal9617
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 widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 96 91`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2591`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002591`	4 bytes
HTML named	`&blk14;`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`░`
HTML hex	`░`
CSS	`\2591`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2591`
JSON	`\u2591`
Python	`\u2591`
Python	`\N{LIGHT SHADE}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2591`
C / C++	`\u2591`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2591}`
Go	`\u2591`
Ruby	`\u2591`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(9617)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%96%91`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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+258F▏Left One Eighth Block U+2590▐Right Half Block U+2592▒Medium Shade U+2593▓Dark Shade U+2594▔Upper One Eighth Block U+2595▕Right One Eighth Block U+2596▖Quadrant Lower Left U+2597▗Quadrant Lower Right