U+2590 "▐" Right Half Block Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2590 "▐" Right Half Block is a graphic symbol that represents the right half of a solid square, designed to fill the left side of its character cell with visible glyph space while leaving the right side empty, effectively creating a visual block that can be used alongside other block drawing characters and shades for text-based graphical interfaces, pixel art, or terminal displays.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2590 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Right 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 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2590 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002590 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2590 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |