Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.

U+25A0–U+25CF 25A0 25B0 25C0   Symbol Name Symbol Name Symbol Name Last Hex# HTML Hex HTML Hex HTML Hex Dec Picture Dec Picture Dec Picture ■ BLACK SQUARE ▰ BLACK PARALLELOGRAM ◀ BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE 0 ■ ▰ ◀ ■ ▰ ◀ □ WHITE SQUARE ▱ WHITE PARALLELOGRAM ◁ WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation domain restriction) 1 □ ▱ ◁ □ ▱ ◁ ▢ WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS ▲ BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE ◂ BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 2 ▢ ▲ ◂ ▢ ▲ ◂ ▣ WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE △ WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE (trine) ◃ WHITE LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 3 ▣ △ ◃ ▣ △ ◃ ▤ SQUARE WITH HORIZONTAL FILL ▴ BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◄ BLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER 4 ▤ ▴ ◄ ▤ ▴ ◄ ▥ SQUARE WITH VERTICAL FILL ▵ WHITE UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◅ WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER 5 ▥ ▵ ◅ ▥ ▵ ◅ ▦ SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL ▶ BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE ◆ BLACK DIAMOND 6 ▦ ▶ ◆ ▦ ▶ ◆ ▧ SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILL ▷ WHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation range restriction) ◇ WHITE DIAMOND 7 ▧ ▷ ◇ ▧ ▷ ◇ ▨ SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILL ▸ BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◈ WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND 8 ▨ ▸ ◈ ▨ ▸ ◈ ▩ SQUARE WITH DIAGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL ▹ WHITE RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◉ FISHEYE (Tainome, a Japanese bullet mark) 9 ▩ ▹ ◉ ▩ ▹ ◉ ▪ BLACK SMALL SQUARE ► BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER ◊ LOZENGE A ▪ ► ◊ ▪ ► ◊ ▫ WHITE SMALL SQUARE ▻ WHITE RIGHT-POINTING POINTER ○ WHITE CIRCLE B ▫ ▻ ○ ▫ ▻ ○ ▬ BLACK RECTANGLE ▼ BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE ◌ DOTTED CIRCLE C ▬ ▼ ◌ ▬ ▼ ◌ ▭ WHITE RECTANGLE ▽ WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE (Nabla operator) ◍ CIRCLE WITH VERTICAL FILL D ▭ ▽ ◍ ▭ ▽ ◍ ▮ BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE ▾ BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ◎ BULLSEYE E ▮ ▾ ◎ ▮ ▾ ◎ ▯ WHITE VERTICAL RECTANGLE ▿ WHITE DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE ● BLACK CIRCLE F ▯ ▿ ● ▯ ▿ ● 25A0 25B0 25C0  

The BLACK CIRCLE is displayed when typing in a password field, in order to hide characters from a screen recorder or shoulder surfing.

Font coverage Font sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Geometric Shapes range. Unifont also contains all the glyphs. Among the fonts in widespread use, full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol and significant partial implementation of this range is provided by Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode, which include coverage for 83% (80 out of 96) and 82% (79 out of 96) of the symbols, respectively.

Block

Emoji The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji: U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE.

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji.

Emoji variation sequences U+ 25AA 25AB 25B6 25C0 25FB 25FC 25FD 25FE default presentation text text text text text text emoji emoji base code point ▪ ▫ ▶ ◀ ◻ ◼ ◽ ◾ base+VS15 (text) base+VS16 (emoji)

History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Geometric Shapes block:

Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+25A0..25EE 79 (to be determined) N4182 1.1 U+25EF 1 (to be determined) 3.0 U+25F0..25F7 8 N1138 N1203 doc) N1564 N1603 N1682 N1898 N1897 html, doc) 3.2 U+25F8..25FE 7 N2191R txt) N4182 U+25FF 1 N2356 doc)

See also Box-drawing characters Dingbat Tombstone, the end of proof character Other Unicode blocks Box Drawing Block Elements Geometric Shapes Extended Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (Unicode block) includes more geometric shapes Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (Unicode block) includes several geometric shapes of different colors Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode Symbols for Legacy Computing

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