U+258B Left Five Eighths Block
U+258B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Block Elements in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+258B forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
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.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9611 |
| UTF-8 | E2 96 8B |
| UTF-16 | 25 8B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 25 8B |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%96%8B |
| HTML hex reference | ▋ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â–‹ |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A2 6E |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A2 6E |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A2 6E |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A8 83 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A8 83 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LEFT FIVE EIGHTHS BLOCK | |
| — | |
| Block Elements | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| ✘ | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| ✘ | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| Yes | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Left Five Eighths Block | |
| R |