Square with Horizontal Fill ▤
Symbol Meaning
This symbol is used in geographic maps, education, IQ assessment tests, and textual graphics.
First of all, such a square can be often seen in map legends, where it represents various features of the location, its relief and landscape. But it's not the only option. In basic drawing it is used to indicate a flat composition where all elements are on the same level.
Secondly, a square with horizontal lines is commonly used in IQ tests. There are 5 lines, but in one row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, squares with fewer or more lines can be present.
Lastly, a square with horizontal fill is used in textual graphics on website pages and social media platforms.
The symbol “Square with Horizontal Fill” is included in the “Geometric shapes” subblock of the “Geometric Shapes” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
quadrature, geometry, shape, IQ.
| Unicode Name | Square with Horizontal Fill |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Geometric Shapes |
| Unicode Subblock | Geometric shapes |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 25A4 |
| Simple case change | 25A4 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 96 A4 | 226 150 164 | 14849700 | 11100010 10010110 10100100 |
| UTF-16BE | 25 A4 | 37 164 | 9636 | 00100101 10100100 |
| UTF-16LE | A4 25 | 164 37 | 42021 | 10100100 00100101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 25 A4 | 0 0 37 164 | 9636 | 00000000 00000000 00100101 10100100 |
| UTF-32LE | A4 25 00 00 | 164 37 0 0 | 2753888256 | 10100100 00100101 00000000 00000000 |
