Source: Noto Sans Math

U+2592 Medium Shade

U+2592 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2580 to U+259F Block Elements in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as speckles fill and dotted fill.

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+2592 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	9618
UTF-8	E2 96 92
UTF-16	25 92
UTF-32	00 00 25 92
URL-Quoted	%E2%96%92
HTML hex reference	▒
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â–’
HTML named entity	&blk12;
alias	speckles fill
alias	dotted fill
Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes)	84
Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)	A2 C6
Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes)	B1
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)	A2 C6
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 37 99 35
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 43 22 46 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)	1B 24 29 43 0E 22 46 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)	D9 C6
Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes)	91
Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes)	91
Adobe Glyph List	shade
Adobe Glyph List	shademedium
digraph	:S

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	MEDIUM SHADE
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Block Elements
General Category (gc)	Other Symbol
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Medium Shade
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Medium Shade
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Medium Shade
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Medium Shade
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Medium Shade
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Medium Shade
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Medium Shade
Case Folding (cf)	Medium Shade
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Medium Shade
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✘
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Medium Shade
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Medium Shade
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Medium Shade
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Medium Shade
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R