Technical information

Symbol
NameLeft half block
Unicode numberU+258C
CategoryBlock elements
DescriptionThe Unicode character ▌, or U+258C, is known as the "Left Half Block". It belongs to the "Block Elements" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a rectangular block that is filled in on the left half and empty on the right half. It is typically used in creating simplistic graphics or charts within a block of text, or to represent progress in a progress bar or a loading screen. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity▌
HTML Entity (hex)▌
URL Escape Code%E2%96%8C
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x96 0x8C
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010110:10001100
UTF-160x258C
UTF-320x0000258C

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u258C"
CSS Code\258C
JavaScript"\u258C"
Perl\x{258C}
Python 2u"\u258C"
Python 3\u258C
Ruby\u{258C}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ▌ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9612;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\258C";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References