U+25DC "◜" Upper Left Quadrant Circular Arc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
◜
U+25DC "◜" Upper Left Quadrant Circular Arc is a geometric symbol that represents a quarter-circle segment occupying the upper left corner of an invisible bounding square, resembling the top-left portion of a ring or circle. It is part of the Block Elements and Geometric Shapes blocks within the Unicode standard, often used in technical diagrams, user interface design, ASCII art, or to create visual patterns such as borders and loading indicators. Its symmetrical counterparts include the upper right, lower left, and lower right quadrant arcs, which together can form a complete circular outline when placed in the four corners of a square area.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+25DC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Upper Left Quadrant Circular Arc |
| 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 0x97 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x25DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000025DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u25dc |
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 | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |