U+25A5 "▥" Square with Vertical Fill Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+25A5 "▥" Square with Vertical Fill is a geometric symbol that depicts a square shape filled with vertical lines, creating a striped or hatched appearance. It belongs to the Geometric Shapes block in Unicode, which includes a variety of basic and filled forms used for diagrams, user interfaces, and text-based graphics. This character is often employed in technical contexts such as maps, charts, or documentation to represent a filled region, shading, or a specific pattern within a square bounded area. Its codepoint is fixed at U+25A5, distinguishing it from other filled square variants like the completely solid or cross-hatched squares in the same character set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+25A5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square with Vertical Fill |
| Block | Geometric Shapes |
| 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 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x25A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000025A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u25a5 |