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Technical information
| Symbol | ▓ | |
| Name | Dark shade | |
| Unicode number | U+2593 | |
| Category | Shade block characters | |
| Description | The Unicode character ▓, or U+2593, is known as "Dark Shade". It is part of the "Block Elements" block in the Unicode standard and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. The character is a rectangular glyph, typically occupying the full height of the line, filled with a pattern of dense dots that represent a dark shading effect. It's often used in text-based user interfaces, ASCII art, or for creating various visual effects in a text-only environment. It's especially common in creating progress bars, charts, and other graphical elements within a text-based context. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ▓ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ▓ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ▓ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%96%93 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x96 0x93 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010110:10010011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2593 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002593 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2593" | |
| CSS Code | \2593 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2593" | |
| Perl | \x{2593} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2593" | |
| Python 3 | \u2593 | |
| Ruby | \u{2593} |
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: "\2593";
}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