U+2599 "▙" Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Left and Lower Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+2599 "▙" Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Left and Lower Right is a block-drawing symbol that fills three quarters of its character cell, creating a solid shape that occupies the upper left, lower left, and lower right quadrants while leaving the upper right quadrant empty. This character is part of the Block Elements range, commonly used in text-based graphics, terminal interfaces, and legacy computing systems to construct pixelated images, progress bars, or partial shading effects. Its design allows for precise visual segmentation of space, often combined with other quadrant characters to form complex mosaic patterns or simulate grayscale shading in monochrome environments.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2599
Name
Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Left and Lower Right
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
▙
HTML Hex Encoding
▙
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x96 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2599
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002599
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2599
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common