U+25A8 "▨" Square with Upper Right to Lower Left Fill Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+25A8 "▨" Square with Upper Right to Lower Left Fill is a geometric symbol representing a square that is partially filled along a diagonal line running from its upper right corner down to its lower left corner. This creates a distinct pattern where the upper right half of the square is filled, while the lower left half remains empty, offering a visual contrast that can be used in technical diagrams, data visualization, or text-based user interfaces to indicate a specific state, proportion, or directional flow. Its clean, binary division makes it useful for representing partial completeness, directional shading, or as a decorative element in typesetting and coding environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+25A8
Version Added 1.1
Name Square with Upper Right to Lower Left 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 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x25A8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000025A8
C/C++/Java Escape \u25a8

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