U+259F "▟" Quadrant Upper Right and Lower Left and Lower Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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