Geometric Shapes (Unicode block)

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Geometric Shapes
RangeU+25A0..U+25FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsControl code graphics
Geometric shapes
Assigned96 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)79 (+79)
1.1 (1993)80 (+1)
3.0 (1999)88 (+8)
3.2 (2002)96 (+8)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2][3]

Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.

U+25A0–U+25CF

25A025B025C0 
SymbolNameSymbolNameSymbolName Last Hex#
HTML HexHTML HexHTML Hex
DecPictureDecPictureDecPicture
■BLACK SQUARE▰BLACK PARALLELOGRAM◀BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE 0
■▰◀
■▰◀
□WHITE SQUARE▱WHITE PARALLELOGRAM◁WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation domain restriction) 1
□▱◁
□▱◁
▢WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS▲BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE◂BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 2
▢▲◂
▢▲◂
▣WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE△WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE (trine)◃WHITE LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 3
▣△◃
▣△◃
▤SQUARE WITH HORIZONTAL FILL▴BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◄BLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER 4
▤▴◄
▤▴◄
▥SQUARE WITH VERTICAL FILL▵WHITE UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◅WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER 5
▥▵◅
▥▵◅
▦SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL▶BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE◆BLACK DIAMOND 6
▦▶◆
▦▶◆
▧SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILL▷WHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation range restriction)◇WHITE DIAMOND 7
▧▷◇
▧▷◇
▨SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILL▸BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◈WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND 8
▨▸◈
▨▸◈
▩SQUARE WITH DIAGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL▹WHITE RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◉FISHEYE (Tainome, a Japanese bullet mark) 9
▩▹◉
▩▹◉
▪BLACK SMALL SQUARE►BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER◊LOZENGE A
▪►◊
▪►◊
▫WHITE SMALL SQUARE▻WHITE RIGHT-POINTING POINTER○WHITE CIRCLE B
▫▻○
▫▻○
▬BLACK RECTANGLE▼BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE◌DOTTED CIRCLE C
▬▼◌
▬▼◌
▭WHITE RECTANGLE▽WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE (Nabla operator)◍CIRCLE WITH VERTICAL FILL D
▭▽◍
▭▽◍
▮BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE▾BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◎BULLSEYE E
▮▾◎
▮▾◎
▯WHITE VERTICAL RECTANGLE▿WHITE DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE●BLACK CIRCLE F
▯▿●
▯▿●
25A025B025C0 

The BLACK CIRCLE is displayed when typing in a password field, in order to hide characters from a screen recorder or shoulder surfing.

Font coverage

Font sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Geometric Shapes range.[4] Unifont also contains all the glyphs.[5] Among the fonts in widespread use,[6][7] full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol and significant partial implementation of this range is provided by Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode, which include coverage for 83% (80 out of 96) and 82% (79 out of 96) of the symbols, respectively.[4]

Block

Geometric Shapes[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+25Ax ■ □ ▢ ▣ ▤ ▥ ▦ ▧ ▨ ▩ ▪ ▫ ▬ ▭ ▮ ▯
U+25Bx ▰ ▱ ▲ △ ▴ ▵ ▶ ▷ ▸ ▹ ► ▻ ▼ ▽ ▾ ▿
U+25Cx ◀ ◁ ◂ ◃ ◄ ◅ ◆ ◇ ◈ ◉ ◊ ○ ◌ ◍ ◎ ●
U+25Dx ◐ ◑ ◒ ◓ ◔ ◕ ◖ ◗ ◘ ◙ ◚ ◛ ◜ ◝ ◞ ◟
U+25Ex ◠ ◡ ◢ ◣ ◤ ◥ ◦ ◧ ◨ ◩ ◪ ◫ ◬ ◭ ◮ ◯
U+25Fx ◰ ◱ ◲ ◳ ◴ ◵ ◶ ◷ ◸ ◹ ◺ ◻ ◼ ◽ ◾ ◿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0

Emoji

The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji: U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE.[8][9]

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji.[10]

Emoji variation sequences
U+25AA25AB25B625C025FB25FC25FD25FE
default presentationtexttexttexttexttexttextemojiemoji
base code point▪▫▶◀◻◼◽◾
base+VS15 (text)▪︎▫︎▶︎◀︎◻︎◼︎◽︎◾︎
base+VS16 (emoji)▪️▫️▶️◀️◻️◼️◽️◾️

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Geometric Shapes block:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  4. 1 2 "Font Support for Unicode Block 'Geometric Shapes'". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  5. ↑ "GNU Unifont Glyphs". Unifoundry.com. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  6. ↑ "Mac OS X 10.5 bundled with Arial Unicode MS". Archived from the original on 2011-05-10. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  7. ↑ "Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  8. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  9. ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  10. ↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.