Geometric Shapes (Unicode block)

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Short description: Block of Unicode symbols
Short description: Unicode character 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
1.0.079 (+79)
1.180 (+1)
3.088 (+8)
3.296 (+8)
Note: [1][2][3]

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
■ ▰ ◀
■ ▰ Image:U25B0.gif ◀
□ WHITE SQUARE ▱ WHITE PARALLELOGRAM ◁ WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation domain restriction) 1
□ ▱ ◁
□ ▱ Image:U25B1.gif ◁
▢ WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS ▲ BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE ◂ BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 2
▢ ▲ ◂
▢ ▲ Image:U25B2.gif ◂
▣ WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE △ WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE (trine) ◃ WHITE LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 3
▣ △ ◃
▣ △ 28px ◃
▤ SQUARE WITH HORIZONTAL FILL ▴ BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◄ BLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER 4
▤ ▴ ◄
▤ ▴ Image:U25B4.gif ◄
▥ SQUARE WITH VERTICAL FILL ▵ WHITE UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◅ WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER 5
▥ ▵ ◅
▥ ▵ Image:U25B5.gif ◅
▦ SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL ▶ BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE ◆ BLACK DIAMOND 6
▦ ▶ ◆
▦ ▶ Image:U25B6.gif ◆
▧ SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILL ▷ WHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation range restriction) ◇ WHITE DIAMOND 7
▧ ▷ ◇
▧ ▷ Image:U25B7.gif ◇
▨ SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILL ▸ BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◈ WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND 8
▨ ▸ ◈
▨ ▸ Image:U25B8.gif ◈
▩ SQUARE WITH DIAGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL ▹ WHITE RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◉ FISHEYE (Tainome, a Japanese bullet mark) 9
▩ ▹ ◉
▩ ▹ Image:U25B9.gif ◉
▪ BLACK SMALL SQUARE ► BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER ◊ LOZENGE A
▪ ► ◊
▪ ► Image:U25BA.gif ◊
▫ WHITE SMALL SQUARE ▻ WHITE RIGHT-POINTING POINTER ○ WHITE CIRCLE B
▫ ▻ ○
▫ ▻ Image:U25BB.gif ○
▬ BLACK RECTANGLE ▼ BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE ◌ DOTTED CIRCLE C
▬ ▼ ◌
▬ ▼ Image:U25BC.gif ◌
▭ WHITE RECTANGLE ▽ WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE (Nabla operator) ◍ CIRCLE WITH VERTICAL FILL D
▭ ▽ ◍
▭ ▽ Image:U25BD.gif ◍
▮ BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE ▾ BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◎ BULLSEYE E
▮ ▾ ◎
▮ ▾ Image:U25BE.gif ◎
▯ WHITE VERTICAL RECTANGLE ▿ WHITE DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ● BLACK CIRCLE F
▯ ▿ ●
▯ ▿ Image:U25BF.gif ●
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.

U+25D0–U+25FF

25D0 25E0 25F0  
Symbol Name Symbol Name Symbol Name Last Hex#
HTML Hex HTML Hex HTML Hex
Dec Picture Dec Picture Dec Picture
◐ CIRCLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK ◠ UPPER HALF CIRCLE ◰ WHITE SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT QUADRANT 0
◐ ◠ ◰
◐ ◠ Image:U25E0.gif ◰
◑ CIRCLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK ◡ LOWER HALF CIRCLE ◱ WHITE SQUARE WITH LOWER LEFT QUADRANT 1
◑ ◡ ◱
◑ ◡ Image:U25E1.gif ◱
◒ CIRCLE WITH LOWER HALF BLACK ◢ BLACK LOWER RIGHT TRIANGLE ◲ WHITE SQUARE WITH LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT 2
◒ ◢ ◲
◒ ◢ Image:U25E2.gif ◲
◓ CIRCLE WITH UPPER HALF BLACK ◣ BLACK LOWER LEFT TRIANGLE ◳ WHITE SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT 3
◓ ◣ ◳
◓ ◣ Image:U25E3.gif ◳
◔ CIRCLE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT BLACK ◤ BLACK UPPER LEFT TRIANGLE ◴ WHITE CIRCLE WITH UPPER LEFT QUADRANT 4
◔ ◤ ◴
◔ ◤ Image:U25E4.gif ◴
◕ CIRCLE WITH ALL BUT UPPER LEFT QUADRANT BLACK ◥ BLACK UPPER RIGHT TRIANGLE ◵ WHITE CIRCLE WITH LOWER LEFT QUADRANT 5
◕ ◥ ◵
◕ ◥ Image:U25E5.gif ◵
◖ LEFT HALF BLACK CIRCLE ◦ WHITE BULLET ◶ WHITE CIRCLE WITH LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT 6
◖ ◦ ◶
◖ ◦ Image:U25E6.gif ◶
◗ RIGHT HALF BLACK CIRCLE ◧ SQUARE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK ◷ WHITE CIRCLE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT 7
◗ ◧ ◷
◗ ◧ Image:U25E7.gif ◷
◘ INVERSE BULLET ◨ SQUARE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK ◸ UPPER LEFT TRIANGLE 8
◘ ◨ ◸
◘ ◨ Image:U25E8.gif ◸
◙ INVERSE WHITE CIRCLE ◩ SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT DIAGONAL HALF BLACK ◹ UPPER RIGHT TRIANGLE 9
◙ ◩ ◹
◙ ◩ Image:U25E9.gif ◹
◚ UPPER HALF INVERSE WHITE CIRCLE ◪ SQUARE WITH LOWER RIGHT DIAGONAL HALF BLACK ◺ LOWER LEFT TRIANGLE A
◚ ◪ ◺
◚ ◪ Image:U25EA.gif ◺
◛ LOWER HALF INVERSE WHITE CIRCLE ◫ WHITE SQUARE WITH VERTICAL BISECTING LINE ◻ WHITE MEDIUM SQUARE (Modal logic: always, or necessarily) B
◛ ◫ ◻
◛ ◫ Image:U25EB.gif ◻
◜ UPPER LEFT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC ◬ WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH DOT ◼ BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE C
◜ ◬ ◼
◜ ◬ Image:U25EC.gif ◼
◝ UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC ◭ UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK ◽ WHITE MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE D
◝ ◭ ◽
◝ ◭ Image:U25ED.gif ◽
◞ LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC ◮ UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK ◾ BLACK MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE E
◞ ◮ ◾
◞ ◮ Image:U25EE.gif ◾
◟ LOWER LEFT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC ◯ LARGE CIRCLE ◿ LOWER RIGHT TRIANGLE F
◟ ◯ ◿
◟ ◯ Image:U25EF.gif ◿
25D0 25E0 25F0  

The CIRCLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK is used to represent the contrast ratio of a screen.

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

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[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+25A0..25EE 79 (to be determined)
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] 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), 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), 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 
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[lower-alpha 4] 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), Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] 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), 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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". The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/Notice.pdf. 
  2. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. 
  3. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Font Support for Unicode Block 'Geometric Shapes'". https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/geometric_shapes/fontsupport.htm. 
  5. ↑ "GNU Unifont Glyphs". Unifoundry.com. http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html. 
  6. ↑ "Mac OS X 10.5 bundled with Arial Unicode MS". http://www.fonts.com.hk/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=246. 
  7. ↑ "Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents". http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html. 
  8. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/. 
  9. ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt. 
  10. ↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. 



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