Black Parallelogram ▰
Symbol Meaning
You might have seen this symbol in mathematics, design, and textual graphics.
It is a parallelogram, a geometrical shape, the opposite sides of which are parallel and equal in length. The opposite angles and sides of parallelogram are also equal. Due to such an extraordinary form, it has become very popular, and various companies and brands tend to use it in their logos.
On geographic map legends, black parallelograms often indicate deposits of oil shale.
With this symbol, you can create various combinations to decorate a web page, as well as embellish your nickname or text header. It can also be used to create puzzles.
In pictograms, a black parallelogram can indicate the black color of a specific item.
The symbol “Black Parallelogram” 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
shape, geometry, deposits of oil.
| Unicode Name | Black Parallelogram |
| 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 | 25B0 |
| Simple case change | 25B0 |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_Math | + |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 96 B0 | 226 150 176 | 14849712 | 11100010 10010110 10110000 |
| UTF-16BE | 25 B0 | 37 176 | 9648 | 00100101 10110000 |
| UTF-16LE | B0 25 | 176 37 | 45093 | 10110000 00100101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 25 B0 | 0 0 37 176 | 9648 | 00000000 00000000 00100101 10110000 |
| UTF-32LE | B0 25 00 00 | 176 37 0 0 | 2955214848 | 10110000 00100101 00000000 00000000 |
