Geometric Shapes (Unicode block)

Geometric Shapes
RangeU+25A0..U+25FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsControl code graphics
Geometric shapes
Assigned96 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode Version History
1.0.0 (1991)79 (+79)
1.1 (1993)80 (+1)
3.0 (1999)88 (+8)
3.2 (2002)96 (+8)
Unicode documentation
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Note:

Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.

U+25A0–U+25CF

25A025B025C0 
SymbolNameSymbolNameSymbolName Last Hex#
HTML HexHTML HexHTML Hex
DecPictureDecPictureDecPicture
■BLACK SQUARE▰BLACK PARALLELOGRAM◀BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE 0
■▰◀
■▰◀
□WHITE SQUARE▱WHITE PARALLELOGRAM◁WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation domain restriction) 1
□▱◁
□▱◁
▢WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS▲BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE◂BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 2
▢▲◂
▢▲◂
▣WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE△WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE (trine)◃WHITE LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 3
▣△◃
▣△◃
▤SQUARE WITH HORIZONTAL FILL▴BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◄BLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER 4
▤▴◄
▤▴◄
▥SQUARE WITH VERTICAL FILL▵WHITE UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◅WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER 5
▥▵◅
▥▵◅
▦SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL▶BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE◆BLACK DIAMOND 6
▦▶◆
▦▶◆
▧SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILL▷WHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation range restriction)◇WHITE DIAMOND 7
▧▷◇
▧▷◇
▨SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILL▸BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◈WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND 8
▨▸◈
▨▸◈
▩SQUARE WITH DIAGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL▹WHITE RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◉FISHEYE (Tainome, a Japanese bullet mark) 9
▩▹◉
▩▹◉
▪BLACK SMALL SQUARE►BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER◊LOZENGE A
▪►◊
▪►◊
▫WHITE SMALL SQUARE▻WHITE RIGHT-POINTING POINTER○WHITE CIRCLE B
▫▻○
▫▻○
▬BLACK RECTANGLE▼BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE◌DOTTED CIRCLE C
▬▼◌
▬▼◌
▭WHITE RECTANGLE▽WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE (Nabla operator)◍CIRCLE WITH VERTICAL FILL D
▭▽◍
▭▽◍
▮BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE▾BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◎BULLSEYE E
▮▾◎
▮▾◎
▯WHITE VERTICAL RECTANGLE▿WHITE DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE●BLACK CIRCLE F
▯▿●
▯▿●
25A025B025C0 

The BLACK CIRCLE is displayed when typing in a password field, in order to hide characters from a screen recorder or shoulder surfing.

Font coverage

Font sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Geometric Shapes range. Unifont also contains all the glyphs. Among the fonts in widespread use, full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol and significant partial implementation of this range is provided by Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode, which include coverage for 83% (80 out of 96) and 82% (79 out of 96) of the symbols, respectively.

Block

Geometric Shapes[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+25Ax ■ □ ▢ ▣ ▤ ▥ ▦ ▧ ▨ ▩ ▪ ▫ ▬ ▭ ▮ ▯
U+25Bx ▰ ▱ ▲ △ ▴ ▵ ▶ ▷ ▸ ▹ ► ▻ ▼ ▽ ▾ ▿
U+25Cx ◀ ◁ ◂ ◃ ◄ ◅ ◆ ◇ ◈ ◉ ◊ ○ ◌ ◍ ◎ ●
U+25Dx ◐ ◑ ◒ ◓ ◔ ◕ ◖ ◗ ◘ ◙ ◚ ◛ ◜ ◝ ◞ ◟
U+25Ex ◠ ◡ ◢ ◣ ◤ ◥ ◦ ◧ ◨ ◩ ◪ ◫ ◬ ◭ ◮ ◯
U+25Fx ◰ ◱ ◲ ◳ ◴ ◵ ◶ ◷ ◸ ◹ ◺ ◻ ◼ ◽ ◾ ◿
Notes
1.^As of Unicode version 18.0

Emoji

The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji: U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE.

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji.

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 25AA25AB25B625C025FB25FC25FD25FE
default presentation texttexttexttexttexttextemojiemoji
base code point ▪▫▶◀◻◼◽◾
base+VS15 (text) ▪︎▫︎▶︎◀︎◻︎◼︎◽︎◾︎
base+VS16 (emoji) ▪️▫️▶️◀️◻️◼️◽️◾️

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Geometric Shapes block:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  4. 1 2 "Font Support for Unicode Block 'Geometric Shapes'". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  5. ↑ "GNU Unifont Glyphs". Unifoundry.com. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  6. ↑ "Mac OS X 10.5 bundled with Arial Unicode MS". Archived from the original on 2011-05-10. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  7. ↑ "Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  8. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  9. ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  10. ↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.