U+2593 "▓" Dark Shade Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2593 "▓" Dark Shade is part of the Block Elements range, designed to create visual shading and gradients in text based displays. It represents a medium density fill, appearing as a solid block interspersed with a fine grid of background dots, providing a darker tone than the medium shade U+2592 but lighter than the full block U+2588. Historically, this character was developed for use in early computer terminals and graphical user interfaces to simulate textured or dimmed areas, and it remains useful in modern contexts for creating simple data visualizations, progress bars, or decorative text art in plain text environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2593 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Dark 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 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2593 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002593 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2593 |