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
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