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Full Block

Group: Box drawing

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About this character

Full Block belongs to the Box drawing group and is encoded at U+2588. 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+2588
Hex
2588
Decimal
9608
HTML
█
CSS
\2588
JavaScript
\u2588
Python
\u2588
UTF-8
E2 96 88

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

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