Lower Five Eighths Block

It fills the lower five eighths of one text cell.

This lower block belongs to a legacy terminal-graphics toolkit. Unicode’s Block Elements preserve characters drawn from national, vendor, and terminal standards, which built simple displays inside character cells. The fractional blocks add height steps finer than whole cells; the set supports compatibility with those older systems, rather than a single measurement scale.

How does ▅ work in terminal art?

Treat it as one fixed-width graphic cell, not a freestanding picture.

For terminal art, repeat it across a row to make a bar, or combine it with neighboring fractional blocks to approximate a stepped shape.

Use a monospaced font and check the actual terminal or editor. Unicode expects adjacent Block Elements to join without gaps, but wrong font proportions can leave seams. As of 2026-09-04, VS Code terminals could render Block Elements with custom glyphs instead of the configured font, so the terminal may look different from the editor.