Unicode Block Geometric Shapes

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

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:

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
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
WHITE SQUARE WHITE PARALLELOGRAM WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation domain restriction) 1
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 2
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE (trine) WHITE LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 3
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
SQUARE WITH HORIZONTAL FILL BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE BLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER 4
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
SQUARE WITH VERTICAL FILL WHITE UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER 5
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE BLACK DIAMOND 6
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILL WHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation range restriction) WHITE DIAMOND 7
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILL BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND 8
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
SQUARE WITH DIAGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL WHITE RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE FISHEYE (Tainome, a Japanese bullet mark) 9
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
BLACK SMALL SQUARE BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER LOZENGE A
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
WHITE SMALL SQUARE WHITE RIGHT-POINTING POINTER WHITE CIRCLE B
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
BLACK RECTANGLE BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE DOTTED CIRCLE C
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
WHITE RECTANGLE WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE (Nabla operator) CIRCLE WITH VERTICAL FILL D
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE BULLSEYE E
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
WHITE VERTICAL RECTANGLE WHITE DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE BLACK CIRCLE F
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
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
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
CIRCLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK LOWER HALF CIRCLE WHITE SQUARE WITH LOWER LEFT QUADRANT 1
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
CIRCLE WITH LOWER HALF BLACK BLACK LOWER RIGHT TRIANGLE WHITE SQUARE WITH LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT 2
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
CIRCLE WITH UPPER HALF BLACK BLACK LOWER LEFT TRIANGLE WHITE SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT 3
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
CIRCLE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT BLACK BLACK UPPER LEFT TRIANGLE WHITE CIRCLE WITH UPPER LEFT QUADRANT 4
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
CIRCLE WITH ALL BUT UPPER LEFT QUADRANT BLACK BLACK UPPER RIGHT TRIANGLE WHITE CIRCLE WITH LOWER LEFT QUADRANT 5
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
LEFT HALF BLACK CIRCLE WHITE BULLET WHITE CIRCLE WITH LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT 6
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
RIGHT HALF BLACK CIRCLE SQUARE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK WHITE CIRCLE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT 7
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
INVERSE BULLET SQUARE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK UPPER LEFT TRIANGLE 8
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
INVERSE WHITE CIRCLE SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT DIAGONAL HALF BLACK UPPER RIGHT TRIANGLE 9
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
UPPER HALF INVERSE WHITE CIRCLE SQUARE WITH LOWER RIGHT DIAGONAL HALF BLACK LOWER LEFT TRIANGLE A
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
LOWER HALF INVERSE WHITE CIRCLE WHITE SQUARE WITH VERTICAL BISECTING LINE WHITE MEDIUM SQUARE (Modal logic: always, or necessarily) B
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
UPPER LEFT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH DOT BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE C
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK WHITE MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE D
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK BLACK MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE E
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
LOWER LEFT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC LARGE CIRCLE LOWER RIGHT TRIANGLE F
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes  Unicode Block Geometric Shapes 
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. 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)
  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 15.1

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+ 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 Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+25A0..25EE 79 (to be determined)
L2/11-438 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 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 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

See also

References

Tags:

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