U+2588 Full Block
U+2588 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as solid.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2588 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
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 |
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Nº | 9608 |
UTF-8 | E2 96 88 |
UTF-16 | 25 88 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 25 88 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%96%88 |
HTML hex reference | █ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â–ˆ |
HTML named entity | █ |
alias | solid |
Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | DB |
Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) | 8D |
Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) | 8D |
Adobe Glyph List | block |
digraph | FB |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
FULL BLOCK | |
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Block Elements | |
Other Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✔ | |
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Other | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |