What ▆ means
It covers three of the four vertical parts in its cell. Repeat it for a solid run or place it beside other block heights to draw steps; a monospaced font keeps the tiles aligned.
From terminal tiles to ANSI art
Before Unicode, IBM PC Code Page 437 and other terminal standards used related block graphics for simple screen pictures when bitmap graphics were unavailable. ANSI X3.64, a terminal-control standard from 1979, and the 1980s ANSI-art scene brought this technique to colored terminal and bulletin-board art.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why 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 2586, 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 quarters block”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2586, then Enter or Space.
HTML
▆CSS
\2586Character entry
Use a Unicode-aware picker; legacy Alt-code numbers may select a DOS code-page character instead.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
▆
HTML hex
▆
CSS content
content: "\2586";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%96%86
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.