Block Elements
Block from U+2580 to U+259F. This block was introduced in Unicode version 1.1 (1993). It contains 32 codepoints.
The Wikipedia provides the following information on block Block Elements:
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.
Chart at Unicode.org (PDF)
Block at Decode Unicode
- Upper Half Block
- Lower One Eighth Block
- Lower One Quarter Block
- Lower Three Eighths Block
- Lower Half Block
- Lower Five Eighths Block
- Lower Three Quarters Block
- Lower Seven Eighths Block
- Full Block
- Left Seven Eighths Block
- Left Three Quarters Block
- Left Five Eighths Block
- Left Half Block
- Left Three Eighths Block
- Left One Quarter Block
- Left One Eighth Block
- Right Half Block
- Light Shade
- Medium Shade
- Dark Shade
- Upper One Eighth Block
- Right One Eighth Block
- Quadrant Lower Left
- Quadrant Lower Right
- Quadrant Upper Left
- Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Left and Lower Right
- Quadrant Upper Left and Lower Right
- Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right and Lower Left
- Quadrant Upper Left and Upper Right and Lower Right
- Quadrant Upper Right
- Quadrant Upper Right and Lower Left
- Quadrant Upper Right and Lower Left and Lower Right