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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
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2][3]
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Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.

U+25A0–U+25CF

25A0 25B0 25C0  
Symbol Name Symbol Name Symbol Name Last Hex#
HTML Hex HTML Hex HTML Hex
Dec Picture Dec Picture Dec Picture
■ 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
▯ ▿ ●
▯ ▿ ●
25A0 25B0 25C0  

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.[4] Unifont also contains all the glyphs.[5] Among the fonts in widespread use,[6][7] 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.[4]

Block

Geometric Shapes[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+25Ax ■ □ ▢ ▣ ▤ ▥ ▦ ▧ ▨ ▩ ▪ ▫ ▬ ▭ ▮ ▯
U+25Bx ▰ ▱ ▲ △ ▴ ▵ ▶ ▷ ▸ ▹ ► ▻ ▼ ▽ ▾ ▿
U+25Cx ◀ ◁ ◂ ◃ ◄ ◅ ◆ ◇ ◈ ◉ ◊ ○ ◌ ◍ ◎ ●
U+25Dx ◐ ◑ ◒ ◓ ◔ ◕ ◖ ◗ ◘ ◙ ◚ ◛ ◜ ◝ ◞ ◟
U+25Ex ◠ ◡ ◢ ◣ ◤ ◥ ◦ ◧ ◨ ◩ ◪ ◫ ◬ ◭ ◮ ◯
U+25Fx ◰ ◱ ◲ ◳ ◴ ◵ ◶ ◷ ◸ ◹ ◺ ◻ ◼ ◽ ◾ ◿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

Emoji

The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji: U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE.[8][9]

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji.[10]

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 25AA 25AB 25B6 25C0 25FB 25FC 25FD 25FE
default presentation text text text text text text emoji emoji
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:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+25A0..25EE 79 (to be determined)
L2/11-438[b][c] N4182 Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
1.1 U+25EF 1 (to be determined)
3.0 U+25F0..25F7 8 N1138 LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646
N1203 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.6", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
N1303 (html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo
L2/97-128 N1564 Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket")
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "7.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
L2/98-005R N1682 Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17
L2/98-320 N1898 ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22
N1897 Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM22 - Keyboard Symbols - SC2 N3191
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/99-126 Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols
3.2 U+25F8..25FE 7 L2/00-119[d] N2191R Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
L2/00-234 N2203 (rtf, txt) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
L2/11-438[b][c] N4182 Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
U+25FF 1 L2/01-156 N2356 Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)
L2/01-344 N2353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ^ a b See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  3. ^ a b Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  4. ^ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents

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. ^ a b "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.
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