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U+2594 · UPPER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK

Upper One Eighth Block

  • CodepointU+2594
  • NameUPPER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK
  • Decimal9620
  • 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+2594 (▔) is UPPER 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.

How to type ▔

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 96 943 bytes
UTF-1625941 code unit
UTF-32000025944 bytes
HTML decimal▔
HTML hex▔
CSS\2594in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2594
JSON\u2594
Python\u2594
Python\N{UPPER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK}by name
Java / C#\u2594
C / C++\u2594universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2594}
Go\u2594
Ruby\u2594
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9620)
URL-encoded%E2%96%94percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+00AF¯Macron U+02C9ˉModifier Letter Macron U+203E‾Overline U+FFE3￣Fullwidth Macron U+FE49﹉Dashed Overline U+FE4A﹊Centreline Overline U+FE4B﹋Wavy Overline U+FE4C﹌Double Wavy Overline
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Nearby in Block Elements

All in 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 U+2595▕Right One Eighth Block U+2596▖Quadrant Lower Left U+2597▗Quadrant Lower Right U+2598▘Quadrant Upper Left U+2599▙Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Left and Lower Right U+259A▚Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Right