Lower One Eighth Block

Group: Box drawing

Keywords

box-drawing

About this character

Lower One Eighth Block belongs to the Box drawing group and is encoded at U+2581. 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+2581
Hex: 2581
Decimal: 9601
HTML: ▁
CSS: \2581
JavaScript: \u2581
Python: \u2581
UTF-8: E2 96 81

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

Box Drawings Light Horizontal U+2500
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal U+2501
Box Drawings Light Vertical U+2502
Box Drawings Heavy Vertical U+2503
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Horizontal U+2504
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal U+2505
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical U+2506
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical U+2507
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal U+2508
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal U+2509
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical U+250A
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical U+250B
Box Drawings Light Down And Right U+250C
Box Drawings Down Light And Right Heavy U+250D
Box Drawings Down Heavy And Right Light U+250E
Box Drawings Heavy Down And Right U+250F
Box Drawings Light Down And Left U+2510
Box Drawings Down Light And Left Heavy U+2511
Box Drawings Down Heavy And Left Light U+2512
Box Drawings Heavy Down And Left U+2513
Box Drawings Light Up And Right U+2514
Box Drawings Up Light And Right Heavy U+2515
Box Drawings Up Heavy And Right Light U+2516
Box Drawings Heavy Up And Right U+2517

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.