U+25A7 "▧" Square with Upper Left to Lower Right Fill Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other