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lower three eighths block

Lower Three Eighths Block

▃ is a block character for text art, adding a partial cell fill. It can build terminal graphics or progress bars; the surrounding picture supplies its meaning. Font and spacing affect alignment.

Text symbol

Search it as: fractional block · text art · terminal graphics · progress bar
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ▃ means

It fills part of a character cell.

In a sequence, it adds a bar step or shades a larger picture.

Early terminal pictures used equal-width cells filled with lines, shades, or blocks. Unicode's block set retains glyphs from IBM PC Code Page 437, an older character set, and other vendors. ANSI art, color-coded text pictures, was closely tied to online bulletin-board systems in the early 1990s.

Why does ▃ shift in text art?

Keep the character grid intact.

Proportional fonts, collapsed spaces, line wrapping, or fallback fonts shift edges. Equal-width (monospace) text with preserved spacing keeps the grid.

Technical; with other blocks, it reads as part of a graphic.

Don't confuse it with

▅

Lower Five Eighths Block

shares “block”, “eighths”, “lower”

▆

Lower Three Quarters Block

shares “block”, “lower”, “three”

▇

Lower Seven Eighths Block

shares “block”, “eighths”, “lower”

▍

Left Three Eighths Block

shares “block”, “eighths”, “three”

Combination ideas

Designed ramp from a sliver to a full 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 2583, 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 three eighths block”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 2583, then Enter or Space.

HTML

▃

CSS

\2583

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

▃

HTML hex

▃

CSS content

content: "\2583";

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

URL encoded

%E2%96%83

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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