Square with Vertical Fill ▥

U+25A5
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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.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

quadrature, geometry, shape.

Unicode Name Square with Vertical Fill
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes
Unicode Subblock Geometric shapes
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Version 1.1
Block Geometric Shapes
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 25A5
Simple case change 25A5
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
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

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