U+2592 "▒" Medium Shade Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2592 "▒" Medium Shade is a block element in the Unicode standard's Box Drawing block, representing a midtone gray square that is approximately 50% filled with a regular pattern of pixels, visually lighter than the dark shade (U+2593) but darker than the light shade (U+2591). It is commonly used in terminal interfaces, text-based user interfaces, and retro computing for creating textured backgrounds, progress bars, or simple graphical elements where a shaded area is needed without a full solid fill.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2592 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Medium Shade |
| 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 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2592 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002592 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2592 |