U+258D "▍" Left Three Eighths Block Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+258D "▍" Left Three Eighths Block is a graphic symbol that represents a vertical bar filling three eighths of a character cell’s width from the left side, part of the block elements set in the Unicode standard used for creating simple visual representations like progress bars, terminal interfaces, or text-based graphics. It belongs to the "Block Elements" block and is often employed in monospaced text to indicate partial completion, boundaries, or shading in a grid, with its counterpart blocks filling varying fractions of the cell for seamless alignment in character-based displays.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+258D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Left Three 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 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x258D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000258D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u258d |