Left One Eighth Block

U+258F

About Left One Eighth Block

Left One Eighth Block is the Unicode character ▏ at codepoint U+258F in the Block Elements 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 Left One Eighth Block

To use the Left One Eighth Block 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: '\258F';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u258F' evaluates to ▏. In Python source, write '\u258F'.

The character encodes to E2 96 8F as UTF-8 bytes and 258F as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9615.

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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