Black Parallelogram

U+25B0

About Black Parallelogram

Black Parallelogram is the Unicode character ▰ at codepoint U+25B0 in the Geometric Shapes block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Black Parallelogram

To use the Black Parallelogram symbol (▰) in HTML, insert the entity ▰ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ▰ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\25B0';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u25B0' evaluates to ▰. In Python source, write '\u25B0'.

The character encodes to E2 96 B0 as UTF-8 bytes and 25B0 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9648.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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