U+2598 "▘" Quadrant Upper Left Unicode Character

U+2598 "▘" Quadrant Upper Left is a block element symbol that represents the upper left quarter of a square, forming part of a set of four quadrant characters designed for creating pixelated or mosaic style graphics in text based environments. Used primarily in terminal interfaces, ASCII art, and early computing font rendering, it allows for finer granularity than full block characters by filling only that specific corner of the character cell. When combined with its counterparts for the upper right, lower left, and lower right quadrants, it enables the display of simple shapes, smooth edges, or low resolution images within monospaced text systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2598
Version Added	3.2
Name	Quadrant Upper 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 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2598
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002598
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2598

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