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Technical information

Symbol▮
NameBlack vertical rectangle
Unicode numberU+25AE
CategoryRectangles
DescriptionThe Unicode character ▮, or U+25AE, is known as the "Black Vertical Rectangle". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. As its name suggests, this character is a symbol that takes the shape of a vertical rectangle filled in with black. Its usage can vary widely depending on context, as it can serve in diagrams, charts, or as a bullet point in lists.

Encoding

HTML Entity▮
HTML Entity (hex)▮
HTML Entity (named)▮
URL Escape Code%E2%96%AE
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x96 0xAE
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010110:10101110
UTF-160x25AE
UTF-320x000025AE

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25AE"
CSS Code\25AE
JavaScript"\u25AE"
Perl\x{25AE}
Python 2u"\u25AE"
Python 3\u25AE
Ruby\u{25AE}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ▮ in sentence and in bold like this ▮ and in italic like this ▮.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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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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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9646;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25AE";
}

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

References