U+2595 "▕" Right One Eighth Block Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2595 "▕" Right One Eighth Block is a graphic symbol that represents a vertical bar occupying the rightmost one eighth of a character cell, making it part of the larger set of block elements used for creating precise visual layouts, barcode patterns, and pixel art in plain text environments. It is often paired with other partial block characters such as the Left One Eighth Block (U+258C) to form smooth, incremental shading or to construct vertical lines of varying thickness in terminal interfaces and legacy computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+2595
Version Added 1.1
Name Right 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 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2595
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002595
C/C++/Java Escape \u2595

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 Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
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