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U+2590 CHARACTER

RIGHT HALF BLOCK

Quick Facts

Unicode Name RIGHT HALF BLOCK
Code Point U+2590
Decimal Value 9616
General Category Other Symbol (So) →
Unicode Block Block Elements →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 96 90
UTF-16 Code Unit 2590
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002590
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 25 90 LE: 90 25
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 25 90 LE: 90 25 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ▐
HTML Hexadecimal ▐
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \002590
JavaScript (ES6) \u2590
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2590
JSON Escape \u2590
Python \u2590
PHP "\u{2590}"
Java "\u2590"
C / C++ "\u2590"
Rust '\u{2590}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%96%90

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2590 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A ▐ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A ▐ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A ▐ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A ▐ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name RIGHT HALF BLOCK

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+2590

Related Characters & Collections

Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's RIGHT HALF BLOCK symbol library.
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