U+259E "▞" Quadrant Upper Right and Lower Left Unicode Character

U+259E "▞" Quadrant Upper Right and Lower Left is a block element that fills only the upper right and lower left quarters of its character cell, leaving the remaining two quadrants (upper left and lower right) empty. Part of the Block Elements range in Unicode, it is commonly used in text-based graphics and terminal applications to create half-shaded squares or to compose denser pixel patterns when combined with other quadrant characters. Representing one specific combination of the four available quadrants, this symbol provides a simple visual shorthand for representing partial shading or directional fills in low-resolution grid displays.

General Properties

Code Point	U+259E
Version Added	3.2
Name	Quadrant 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 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x259E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000259E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u259e

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