U+258E "▎" Left One Quarter Block Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+258E "▎" Left One Quarter Block is a graphic symbol that represents a vertical bar filling the leftmost quarter of its character cell, leaving the remaining three quarters empty. It belongs to the block elements category within Unicode, which includes a series of characters that provide partial shading or filling for text based user interface designs, legacy terminal graphics, and plain text diagrams. This specific block is often used in combination with other block elements to create visual progress bars, charts, or to represent data density and ratios in a monospaced text environment, without requiring complex graphical rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+258E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Left One Quarter 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 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x258E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000258E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u258e |