What ▗ means
In HTML, write ▗ or ▗.
A Unicode-aware character map can locate it by the name “quadrant lower right”; its UTF-8 bytes are E2 96 97.
What is ▗ used for?
It fills the lower-right quarter of a fixed-width text cell.
Text terminals place characters in equal-width cells. Small blocks like ▗ let older systems form crude pictures when bitmap graphics were unavailable. In a 1998 proposal to add terminal graphics to Unicode, Frank da Cruz cited quadrant glyphs from Heath/Zenith 19, Wyse Graphics 3, and Televideo 965 terminal sets.
Unicode describes quadrant fills as complements to half blocks and the full block. It also unified similar Videotex mosaic characters—used in television information services—with this family. For terminal-style patterns, neighboring blocks should join without gaps; a font with mismatched cell dimensions can leave seams.
Technical and niche: it reads as one piece of a text graphic, particularly in terminal-style art.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions 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 ▗
▗\2597Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.