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Technical information
| Symbol | ▀ | |
| Name | Upper half block | |
| Unicode number | U+2580 | |
| Category | Block elements | |
| Description | The Unicode character ▀, or U+2580, is known as the "Upper Half Block". It belongs to the "Block Elements" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a rectangle filled with ink or color in the upper half, while the lower half is left blank. It is commonly used in creating graphics and art within text-based environments, or to represent data in a rudimentary graphical format, such as bar charts or histograms. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ▀ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ▀ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ▀ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%96%80 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x96 0x80 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010110:10000000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2580 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002580 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2580" | |
| CSS Code | \2580 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2580" | |
| Perl | \x{2580} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2580" | |
| Python 3 | \u2580 | |
| Ruby | \u{2580} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ▀ in sentence and in bold like this ▀ and in italic like this ▀.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>▀</span>
span {
content: "\2580";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana