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Technical information
| Symbol | ▏ | |
| Name | Left one eighth block | |
| Unicode number | U+258F | |
| Category | Block elements | |
| Description | The Unicode character ▏, or U+258F, is known as the "Left One Eighth 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 small vertical rectangle, filled with solid color, that covers one eighth of the typical character cell, on the left side. It can be used in digital communications to create various designs, borders, or visual representations of data. 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%8F | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x96 0x8F | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010110:10001111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x258F | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000258F |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u258F" | |
| CSS Code | \258F | |
| JavaScript | "\u258F" | |
| Perl | \x{258F} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u258F" | |
| Python 3 | \u258F | |
| Ruby | \u{258F} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ▏ in sentence and in bold like this ▏ and in italic like this ▏.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>▏</span>
span {
content: "\258F";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana