U+2596 "▖" Quadrant Lower Left Unicode Character

U+2596 "▖" Quadrant Lower Left is a block element symbol that fills the lower left quarter of a character cell, leaving the upper left, upper right, and lower right quadrants empty. It is part of the Block Elements block in Unicode, a series of graphical characters often used in terminal emulators or text-based user interfaces for creating rudimentary pixel art, charts, or smooth shading effects. By combining this character with other quadrant symbols, such as the upper left or lower right blocks, a user can approximate the appearance of a single character cell containing a half-block graphic, enabling finer visual detail in monospaced text environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2596
Version Added	3.2
Name	Quadrant Lower Left
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 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2596
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002596
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2596

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