Square with Diagonal Crosshatch Fill ▩
Symbol Meaning
This symbol is used in textual graphics, pictograms, rebuses, and riddles.
With this symbol, compositions can be created to decorate posts and articles on web pages. It can also be used to create lines to separate different sections and chapters of text. A square with a diagonal grid can be placed at the beginning and end of chapter or section titles, or usernames.
What about rebuses and pictograms? There a square with a diagonal grid can represent a window with bars or a fence since it visually resembles these objects.
The symbol “Square with Diagonal Crosshatch 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 Diagonal Crosshatch 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 | 25A9 |
| Simple case change | 25A9 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 96 A9 | 226 150 169 | 14849705 | 11100010 10010110 10101001 |
| UTF-16BE | 25 A9 | 37 169 | 9641 | 00100101 10101001 |
| UTF-16LE | A9 25 | 169 37 | 43301 | 10101001 00100101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 25 A9 | 0 0 37 169 | 9641 | 00000000 00000000 00100101 10101001 |
| UTF-32LE | A9 25 00 00 | 169 37 0 0 | 2837774336 | 10101001 00100101 00000000 00000000 |
