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▍

left three eighths block

Left three-eighths block

▍ is a fractional block for rough terminal graphics. On its own, it has no standard word meaning; in a row, it supplies one narrow segment.

Text symbol

Search it as: ▍ · fractional block · terminal graphics · character-cell graphics · block glyph
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ▍ means

A partial fill for character-cell graphics. A character cell is a fixed-width text slot; ▍ fills three eighths of it from the left.

Place it beside other fills to make stepped bars; uneven cell widths can leave gaps.

Where did ▍ come from?

It belongs to legacy terminal graphics. Block elements filled text cells to draw simple pictures on screens without pixel graphics; Unicode keeps the group for compatibility with older character sets.

The family draws on Chinese GB 2312 and Korean KS X 1001 character standards, plus industry and terminal sets. This block appears in character sets for Mattel Aquarius, Ohio Scientific, and Sharp X1 computers.

Technical or decorative in ordinary text.

Don't confuse it with

▌

Left Half Block

Half-width; this is a three-eighths fill.

▎

Left One Quarter Block

Quarter-width; ▍ is wider.

Vertical Line

The vertical bar is punctuation; ▍ fills part of a text cell.

Questions people ask

Why does ▍ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ▍

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 258D, then Alt+X to get ▍.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “left three eighths block”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 258d, then Enter or Space.

HTML

▍

CSS

\258D

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

▍

HTML hex

▍

CSS content

content: "\258D";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%96%8D

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Lines & boxes160 symbols

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