U+259F "▟" Quadrant Upper Right and Lower Left and Lower Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+259F "▟" Quadrant Upper Right and Lower Left and Lower Right is a block element from the Block Elements range that fills a square cell with shading except for the upper left quadrant, leaving that area empty to create a distinctive shape. It belongs to a series of characters designed to form various shades and geometric patterns by combining portions of the four quadrants within a single character cell. This particular character includes three of the four quadrants, making it useful in text based graphics for constructing borders, filling areas, or creating visual effects in terminal applications and older computing interfaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+259F |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Quadrant Upper Right and Lower 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 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x259F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000259F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u259f |
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 |