U+2594 "▔" Upper One Eighth Block Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2594 "▔" Upper One Eighth Block is a typographical symbol representing a horizontal bar that occupies the top one eighth of the character's bounding box, leaving the lower seven eighths empty. It is part of the block elements range in Unicode, which includes a series of characters used for creating visual approximations of bar graphs, progress indicators, or shading effects in text environments. This specific block is often employed in terminal interfaces, old school text based user interfaces, or ASCII art to form the upper edge of a filled area or to construct partial horizontal lines.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2594 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Upper One Eighth 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 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2594 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002594 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2594 |