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Left Seven Eighths Block

Group: Box drawing

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About this character

Left Seven Eighths Block belongs to the Box drawing group and is encoded at U+2589. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+2589
Hex
2589
Decimal
9609
HTML
▉
CSS
\2589
JavaScript
\u2589
Python
\u2589
UTF-8
E2 96 89

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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