Characters 9600, 9604, 9608, 9612 and 9616–9619 are present in Microsoft’s WGL4 character set.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, AR PL ZenKai Uni, Arev Sans, Arial Unicode MS, BabelStone Han, Caslon, Chrysanthi Unicode, CN-Arial, CN-Times, Code2000, Courier MonoThai, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Sans Mono, DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Serif Condensed, EversonMono, Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Idg Serif, Free Monospaced, Free Sans, Free Serif, Gulim Che, HAN NOM A, HAN NOM B, Kochi Gothic, Kochi Mincho, Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Unicode, Ming(for ISO10646), MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, Monospace, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, MS UI Gothic, MSung Std Acro, NSimSun, NSimSun-18030, ParabaikSans, PMingLiU, Quivira, Roman Unicode, Sazanami Mincho, SimHei, SImPL, SimSun, SimSun-18030, sixpack, STSong Std Acro, Sun-ExtA, Symbola, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, TSC FMing S TT, UniBurma, WenQuanYi Zen Hei, WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono and YOzFontN; in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts Apple LiGothic, Apple LiSung, BiauKai and Taipei; in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts Apple LiGothic, Apple LiSung, Apple Symbols, BiauKai, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro, Hiragino Mincho Pro, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, PMingLiU, SimSun, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong and Taipei; and in the Unix Unicode font Caslon.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, Apple’s TrueEdit, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2580.pdf.
| Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▀ | 9600 | ▀ | 2580 | UPPER HALF BLOCK (present in WGL4) |
| ▁ | 9601 | ▁ | 2581 | LOWER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK |
| ▂ | 9602 | ▂ | 2582 | LOWER ONE QUARTER BLOCK |
| ▃ | 9603 | ▃ | 2583 | LOWER THREE EIGHTHS BLOCK |
| ▄ | 9604 | ▄ | 2584 | LOWER HALF BLOCK (present in WGL4) |
| ▅ | 9605 | ▅ | 2585 | LOWER FIVE EIGHTHS BLOCK |
| ▆ | 9606 | ▆ | 2586 | LOWER THREE QUARTERS BLOCK |
| ▇ | 9607 | ▇ | 2587 | LOWER SEVEN EIGHTHS BLOCK |
| █ | 9608 | █ | 2588 | FULL BLOCK (present in WGL4) |
| ▉ | 9609 | ▉ | 2589 | LEFT SEVEN EIGHTHS BLOCK |
| ▊ | 9610 | ▊ | 258A | LEFT THREE QUARTERS BLOCK |
| ▋ | 9611 | ▋ | 258B | LEFT FIVE EIGHTHS BLOCK |
| ▌ | 9612 | ▌ | 258C | LEFT HALF BLOCK (present in WGL4) |
| ▍ | 9613 | ▍ | 258D | LEFT THREE EIGHTHS BLOCK |
| ▎ | 9614 | ▎ | 258E | LEFT ONE QUARTER BLOCK |
| ▏ | 9615 | ▏ | 258F | LEFT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK |
| ▐ | 9616 | ▐ | 2590 | RIGHT HALF BLOCK (present in WGL4) |
| ░ | 9617 | ░ | 2591 | LIGHT SHADE (present in WGL4) |
| ▒ | 9618 | ▒ | 2592 | MEDIUM SHADE (present in WGL4) |
| ▓ | 9619 | ▓ | 2593 | DARK SHADE (present in WGL4) |
| ▔ | 9620 | ▔ | 2594 | UPPER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK |
| ▕ | 9621 | ▕ | 2595 | RIGHT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK |
| ▖ | 9622 | ▖ | 2596 | QUADRANT LOWER LEFT |
| ▗ | 9623 | ▗ | 2597 | QUADRANT LOWER RIGHT |
| ▘ | 9624 | ▘ | 2598 | QUADRANT UPPER LEFT |
| ▙ | 9625 | ▙ | 2599 | QUADRANT UPPER LEFT AND LOWER LEFT AND LOWER RIGHT |
| ▚ | 9626 | ▚ | 259A | QUADRANT UPPER LEFT AND LOWER RIGHT |
| ▛ | 9627 | ▛ | 259B | QUADRANT UPPER LEFT AND UPPER RIGHT AND LOWER LEFT |
| ▜ | 9628 | ▜ | 259C | QUADRANT UPPER LEFT AND UPPER RIGHT AND LOWER RIGHT |
| ▝ | 9629 | ▝ | 259D | QUADRANT UPPER RIGHT |
| ▞ | 9630 | ▞ | 259E | QUADRANT UPPER RIGHT AND LOWER LEFT |
| ▟ | 9631 | ▟ | 259F | QUADRANT UPPER RIGHT AND LOWER LEFT AND LOWER RIGHT |
Copyright © 1999–2010 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.2 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2002 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2002.
Created 3rd February 1999 Last updated 7th November 2010