Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading. Used along with block elements are box-drawing characters, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of the screen and portraying drop shadows. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Blocks.
Character table CodeResultDescriptionU+2580▀Upper half blockU+2581▁Lower one eighth blockU+2582▂Lower one quarter blockU+2583▃Lower three eighths blockU+2584▄Lower half blockU+2585▅Lower five eighths blockU+2586▆Lower three quarters blockU+2587▇Lower seven eighths blockU+2588█Full blockU+2589▉Left seven eighths blockU+258A▊Left three quarters blockU+258B▋Left five eighths blockU+258C▌Left half blockU+258D▍Left three eighths blockU+258E▎Left one quarter blockU+258F▏Left one eighth blockU+2590▐Right half blockU+2591░Light shadeU+2592▒Medium shadeU+2593▓Dark shadeU+2594▔Upper one eighth blockU+2595▕Right one eighth blockU+2596▖Quadrant lower leftU+2597▗Quadrant lower rightU+2598▘Quadrant upper leftU+2599▙Quadrant upper left and lower left and lower rightU+259A▚Quadrant upper left and lower rightU+259B▛Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower leftU+259C▜Quadrant upper left and upper right and lower rightU+259D▝Quadrant upper rightU+259E▞Quadrant upper right and lower leftU+259F▟Quadrant upper right and lower left and lower right Font coverage Font sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Block Elements range. Unifont also contains all the glyphs. Among the fonts in widespread use, full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol.
The glyphs in Block Elements each share the same character width in most supported fonts, allowing them to be used graphically in row and column arrangements. However, the block does not contain a space character of its own and ASCII space may or may not render at the same width as Block Elements glyphs, as those characters are intended to be used exclusively for monospaced fonts.
Compact table
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Block Elements block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+2580..2595 22 (to be determined) 3.2 U+2596..259F 10 N2265 N2253
Related symbols in the Mathematical Operators Unicode block. in the Geometric Shapes Unicode block.
See also
Box-drawing characters Code page 437, the character set of the original IBM PC Dingbat Semigraphics (or pseudographics) Tombstone (typography) other Unicode blocks Box Drawing Geometric Shapes Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Symbols for Legacy Computing
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