U+259A "▚" Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Right Unicode Character

U+259A "▚" Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Right is a graphical glyph that belongs to the Block Elements range, which is specifically designed to create shaded or partitioned square areas for text-based user interfaces and early computer graphics. It renders a square divided into two solid triangular quadrants, with the upper left section filled and the lower right section filled, leaving the remaining areas empty to produce a checkerboard-like pattern. This character was originally developed for terminal displays and character-based drawing systems, where it allows precise pixel-level control by combining block segments to simulate shading and simple shapes without relying on bitmap images.

General Properties

Code Point	U+259A
Version Added	3.2
Name	Quadrant Upper 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 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x259A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000259A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u259a

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