Square with Diagonal Crosshatch Fill ▩

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U+25A9

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.

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Unicode Name	Square with Diagonal Crosshatch Fill
Unicode Number
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