U+259C "▜" Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right and Lower Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+259C "▜" Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right and Lower Right is a block element from the Block Elements range, designed for creating pixelated graphics and text-based art by filling three of the four quadrants of a character cell, leaving only the lower left quadrant empty. Its composition combines solid black shading in the upper left, upper right, and lower right sections, making it useful for simulating coarse grayscale textures or building detailed patterns when combined with other quadrant characters. This character is typically rendered as a single glyph in monospace fonts, allowing programmers and designers to construct simple visual representations in terminal interfaces or plain text environments without requiring graphical images.

General Properties

Code Point U+259C
Version Added 3.2
Name Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right 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 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x259C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000259C
C/C++/Java Escape \u259c

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