U+2599 "▙" Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Left and Lower Right Unicode Character

U+2599 "▙" Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Left and Lower Right is a block-drawing symbol that fills three quarters of its character cell, creating a solid shape that occupies the upper left, lower left, and lower right quadrants while leaving the upper right quadrant empty. This character is part of the Block Elements range, commonly used in text-based graphics, terminal interfaces, and legacy computing systems to construct pixelated images, progress bars, or partial shading effects. Its design allows for precise visual segmentation of space, often combined with other quadrant characters to form complex mosaic patterns or simulate grayscale shading in monochrome environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2599
Version Added	3.2
Name	Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Left and Lower Right
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 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2599
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002599
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2599

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