White Parallelogram ▱
Symbol Meaning
This symbol is really useful in geometry, design, puzzles, and textual graphics.
Its function in geometry is described in an article dedicated to the ▰ .
Parallelogram is an original shape which has gained popularity in logo design. For example, the logo of the computer games developer THQ is designed as a parallelogram, and there are many more other cases.
A white parallelogram is often used in rebuses and riddles. There it can indicate the white color of a specific object or phenomenon. This symbol is also used to create compositions on web pages, decorate usernames, and stylize titles and chapters of text on websites and social media platforms.
The symbol “White 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.
| Unicode Name | White 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 | 25B1 |
| Simple case change | 25B1 |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_Math | + |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 96 B1 | 226 150 177 | 14849713 | 11100010 10010110 10110001 |
| UTF-16BE | 25 B1 | 37 177 | 9649 | 00100101 10110001 |
| UTF-16LE | B1 25 | 177 37 | 45349 | 10110001 00100101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 25 B1 | 0 0 37 177 | 9649 | 00000000 00000000 00100101 10110001 |
| UTF-32LE | B1 25 00 00 | 177 37 0 0 | 2971992064 | 10110001 00100101 00000000 00000000 |
