U+25A7 "▧" Square with Upper Left to Lower Right Fill Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+25A7 "▧" Square with Upper Left to Lower Right Fill is a geometric symbol that depicts a square with its upper left corner filled and its lower right corner filled, or equivalently, with shading applied diagonally from the upper left to the lower right. It belongs to the Geometric Shapes Unicode block and is often used in technical diagrams, computer interface design, or text-based graphics to represent partial shading, directional fills, or visual state indicators. Its symmetrical counterpart, U+25A6, features the opposite diagonal pattern.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+25A7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square with Upper Left to Lower Right 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 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x25A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000025A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u25a7 |