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U+25A6 · SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL

Square with Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill

  • CodepointU+25A6
  • NameSQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL
  • Decimal9638
  • BlockGeometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF)
  • 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+25A6 (▦) is SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL, a symbol in the Geometric Shapes 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 A63 bytes
UTF-1625A61 code unit
UTF-32000025A64 bytes
HTML decimal▦
HTML hex▦
CSS\25A6in content: "…"
JavaScript\u25A6
JSON\u25A6
Python\u25A6
Python\N{SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL}by name
Java / C#\u25A6
C / C++\u25A6universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25A6}
Go\u25A6
Ruby\u25A6
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9638)
URL-encoded%E2%96%A6percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
U+25A0■Black Square U+25A1□White Square U+25A2▢White Square with Rounded Corners U+25A3▣White Square Containing Black Small Square U+25A4▤Square with Horizontal Fill U+25A5▥Square with Vertical Fill U+25A7▧Square with Upper Left to Lower Right Fill U+25A8▨Square with Upper Right to Lower Left Fill U+25A9▩Square with Diagonal Crosshatch Fill U+25AA▪Black Small Square U+25AB▫White Small Square U+25AC▬Black Rectangle