U+25A8 Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill
U+25A8 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Geometric Shapes in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+25A8 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “square upper right lower left fill” for use in screen reading software.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9640 |
| UTF-8 | E2 96 A8 |
| UTF-16 | 25 A8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 25 A8 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%96%A8 |
| HTML hex reference | ▨ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â–¨ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A2 C9 |
| Adobe Glyph List | squareupperrighttolowerleftfill |
| digraph | RK |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILL | |
| — | |
| Geometric Shapes | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| ✘ | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| ✘ | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| Yes | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Square with Upper Right To Lower Left Fill | |
| U |