Upper Half Block
Group: Box drawing
Keywords
About this character
Upper Half Block belongs to the Box drawing group and is encoded at U+2580. 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
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U+2580 - Hex
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2580 - Decimal
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9600 - HTML
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▀ - CSS
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\2580 - JavaScript
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\u2580 - Python
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\u2580 - UTF-8
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E2 96 80
The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.