U+259B "▛" Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right and Lower Left Unicode Character

U+259B "▛" Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right and Lower Left is a block element from the Block Elements range, designed for creating graphical shapes and textures using text characters. It represents a square or rectangular cell where three of its four quadrants, specifically the upper left, upper right, and lower left sections, are filled, leaving only the lower right quadrant empty. This character is often used in combination with other quadrant and block characters to build pixelated images, mosaics, or terminal user interfaces, especially in contexts like plain text graphics, code comments, or retro computing displays where fine grained visual control is needed.

General Properties

Code Point	U+259B
Version Added	3.2
Name	Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right and 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 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x259B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000259B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u259b

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