U+2585 "▅" Lower Five Eighths Block Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2585 "▅" Lower Five Eighths Block is a text symbol used primarily in terminal emulators, text-based user interfaces, and ASCII art to represent a visual block that fills five eighths of the character cell from the bottom upward. It is part of the "Block Elements" Unicode block (U+2580 to U+259F), which provides a set of eight fractions from one eighth to seven eighths, enabling smooth gradient shading or progress bar displays in plain text environments. The lower five eighths block appears as a solid dark rectangle occupying the lower 62.5% of the em square, with the upper three eighths left transparent, and it is commonly implemented in Unicode aware software for creating simple charts, loading indicators, or decorative text boundaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2585 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Lower Five Eighths Block |
| Block | Block Elements |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ▅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ▅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x96 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2585 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002585 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2585 |