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U+2592 · MEDIUM SHADE

Medium Shade

  • CodepointU+2592
  • NameMEDIUM SHADE
  • Decimal9618
  • 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+2592 (▒) is MEDIUM SHADE, 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 96 923 bytes
UTF-1625921 code unit
UTF-32000025924 bytes
HTML named▒named character reference
HTML decimal▒
HTML hex▒
CSS\2592in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2592
JSON\u2592
Python\u2592
Python\N{MEDIUM SHADE}by name
Java / C#\u2592
C / C++\u2592universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2592}
Go\u2592
Ruby\u2592
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9618)
URL-encoded%E2%96%92percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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+2591░Light 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 U+2598▘Quadrant Upper Left