Square with Vertical Fill ▥
Symbol Meaning
This symbol has proved to be extremely useful in geographic map legends, IQ assessment tests, clothing labeling, and textual graphics.
What comes to geographic maps, it is usually applied there to represent deposits of valuable minerals such as clay and ceramsite clays.
This symbol consists of 5 bars and it is very popular in IQ tests. It can often be put next to the symbols with different numbers of bars or a plain square.
You may come across such a square in clothing too; it's usually located inside some cloth items, on the labels. There it visually resembles a square with vertical fill, but it has three vertical stripes. This symbol indicates that the garment requires vertical drying.
Another use of this symbol is found in textual graphics. A square with vertical fill is used to style posts and texts on websites and social media.
The symbol “Square with Vertical 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.
| Unicode Name | Square with Vertical 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 | 25A5 |
| Simple case change | 25A5 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 96 A5 | 226 150 165 | 14849701 | 11100010 10010110 10100101 |
| UTF-16BE | 25 A5 | 37 165 | 9637 | 00100101 10100101 |
| UTF-16LE | A5 25 | 165 37 | 42277 | 10100101 00100101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 25 A5 | 0 0 37 165 | 9637 | 00000000 00000000 00100101 10100101 |
| UTF-32LE | A5 25 00 00 | 165 37 0 0 | 2770665472 | 10100101 00100101 00000000 00000000 |
