▨ Square With Upper Right To Lower Left Fill U+25A8

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Decimal / Nº
9640
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character « », officially named Square With Upper Right To Lower Left Fill, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Geometric Shapes block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, the U+25A8 character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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Character Copied!
9640 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 96 A8 Copied!
UTF-16 25 A8 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 A8 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%96%A8 Copied!
HTML hex reference ▨ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'25A8' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u25A8 Copied!
C and C++ \u25a8 Copied!
C# \u25a8 Copied!
CSS \0025A8 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9640) Copied!
Go \u25a8 Copied!
JavaScript \u25A8 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{25a8} Copied!
JSON \u25A8 Copied!
Java \u25A8 Copied!
Lua \u{25A8} Copied!
Matlab char(9640) Copied!
Perl \x{25A8} Copied!
PHP \u{25a8} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\25A8' Copied!
PowerShell `u{25A8} Copied!
Python \u25a8 Copied!
Ruby \u{25a8} Copied!
Rust \u{25a8} Copied!