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▂

lower one quarter block

Lower One Quarter Block

▂ is a block character that fills the bottom quarter of a text cell. It is mostly used with its sibling blocks to draw bar charts, sparklines, progress meters and pixel-style text art. Its exact height depends on the font or terminal.

Text symbol

Search it as: block art · text art · ascii art · ansi art · terminal graphics · semigraphics · sparkline · bar chart
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ▂ means

In the run ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█, ▂ is the second step, two eighths of a cell tall. Sparkline characters like these let scripts and terminal dashboards draw a small chart inside one line of text.

Some terminals draw block elements themselves; others leave the shape to the font. That is why ▂ can look taller, thinner or misaligned, and carefully built text art can break on another screen.

It comes from teletext-era semigraphics

Block characters descend from semigraphics: text cells used as tiny graphic surfaces. Teletext, the TV information-page service of the early 1970s, built simple pictures this way, and ANSI art and Unicode text art carried the idea forward.

Don't confuse it with

▁

Lower One Eighth Block

shares “block”, “lower”, “one”

▎

Left One Quarter Block

shares “block”, “one”, “quarter”

▃

Lower Three Eighths Block

shares “block”, “lower”

▄

Lower Half Block

shares “block”, “lower”

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 2582, 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 “lower one quarter block”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 2582, then Enter or Space.

HTML

▂

CSS

\2582

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

▂

HTML hex

▂

CSS content

content: "\2582";

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

URL encoded

%E2%96%82

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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