U+258C "▌" Left Half Block Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+258C "▌" Left Half Block is a graphical symbol that represents the left half of a solid square, with the right half remaining unfilled or transparent. It belongs to the Block Elements block of the Unicode standard, which is designed for creating simple shaded or text-based graphics, often used in terminal interfaces, old-style ASCII art, or early computer displays. This character occupies one character cell horizontally but visually splits that cell into a filled left side and an empty right side, allowing it to be combined with other block characters like the Right Half Block (U+2590) to form continuous shapes or indicate partial progress in a space efficient manner.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+258C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Left Half 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 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x258C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000258C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u258c |