About Right Half Block
Right Half Block is the Unicode character ▐ at codepoint U+2590 in the Block Elements block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Right Half Block
To use the Right Half 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: '\2590';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2590' evaluates to ▐. In Python source, write '\u2590'.
The character encodes to E2 96 90 as UTF-8 bytes and 2590 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9616.
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.