Geometric Shapes

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

Geometric Shapes
RangeU+25A0..U+25FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsControl code graphics
Geometric shapes
Assigned96 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.079 (+79)
1.0.180 (+1)
3.088 (+8)
3.296 (+8)
Note: [1][2][3]

U+25A0-U+25CF

25A025B025C0 
SymbolNameSymbolNameSymbolName Last Hex#
HTML HexHTML HexHTML Hex
DecPictureDecPictureDecPicture
BLACK SQUAREBLACK PARALLELOGRAMBLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE 0
■▰◀
■▰◀
WHITE SQUAREWHITE PARALLELOGRAMWHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation domain restriction) 1
□▱◁
□▱◁
WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERSBLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLEBLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 2
▢▲◂
▢▲◂
WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUAREWHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE (trine)WHITE LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE 3
▣△◃
▣△◃
SQUARE WITH HORIZONTAL FILLBLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLEBLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER 4
▤▴◄
▤▴◄
SQUARE WITH VERTICAL FILLWHITE UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLEWHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER 5
▥▵◅
▥▵◅
SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILLBLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLEBLACK DIAMOND 6
▦▶◆
▦▶◆
SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILLWHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation range restriction)WHITE DIAMOND 7
▧▷◇
▧▷◇
SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILLBLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLEWHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND 8
▨▸◈
▨▸◈
SQUARE WITH DIAGONAL CROSSHATCH FILLWHITE RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLEFISHEYE (Tainome, a Japanese bullet mark) 9
▩▹◉
▩▹◉
BLACK SMALL SQUAREBLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTERLOZENGE A
▪►◊
▪►◊
WHITE SMALL SQUAREWHITE RIGHT-POINTING POINTERWHITE CIRCLE B
▫▻○
▫▻○
BLACK RECTANGLEBLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLEDOTTED CIRCLE C
▬▼◌
▬▼◌
WHITE RECTANGLEWHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE (Nabla operator)CIRCLE WITH VERTICAL FILL D
▭▽◍
▭▽◍
BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLEBLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLEBULLSEYE E
▮▾◎
▮▾◎
WHITE VERTICAL RECTANGLEWHITE DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLEBLACK CIRCLE F
▯▿●
▯▿●
25A025B025C0 

U+25D0-U+25FF

25D025E025F0 
SymbolNameSymbolNameSymbolName Last Hex#
HTML HexHTML HexHTML Hex
DecPictureDecPictureDecPicture
CIRCLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACKUPPER HALF CIRCLEWHITE SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT QUADRANT 0
◐◠◰
◐◠◰
CIRCLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACKLOWER HALF CIRCLEWHITE SQUARE WITH LOWER LEFT QUADRANT 1
◑◡◱
◑◡◱
CIRCLE WITH LOWER HALF BLACKBLACK LOWER RIGHT TRIANGLEWHITE SQUARE WITH LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT 2
◒◢◲
◒◢◲
CIRCLE WITH UPPER HALF BLACKBLACK LOWER LEFT TRIANGLEWHITE SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT 3
◓◣◳
◓◣◳
CIRCLE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT BLACKBLACK UPPER LEFT TRIANGLEWHITE CIRCLE WITH UPPER LEFT QUADRANT 4
◔◤◴
◔◤◴
CIRCLE WITH ALL BUT UPPER LEFT QUADRANT BLACKBLACK UPPER RIGHT TRIANGLEWHITE CIRCLE WITH LOWER LEFT QUADRANT 5
◕◥◵
◕◥◵
LEFT HALF BLACK CIRCLEWHITE BULLETWHITE CIRCLE WITH LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT 6
◖◦◶
◖◦◶
RIGHT HALF BLACK CIRCLESQUARE WITH LEFT HALF BLACKWHITE CIRCLE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT 7
◗◧◷
◗◧◷
INVERSE BULLETSQUARE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACKUPPER LEFT TRIANGLE 8
◘◨◸
◘◨◸
INVERSE WHITE CIRCLESQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT DIAGONAL HALF BLACKUPPER RIGHT TRIANGLE 9
◙◩◹
◙◩◹
UPPER HALF INVERSE WHITE CIRCLESQUARE WITH LOWER RIGHT DIAGONAL HALF BLACKLOWER LEFT TRIANGLE A
◚◪◺
◚◪◺
LOWER HALF INVERSE WHITE CIRCLEWHITE SQUARE WITH VERTICAL BISECTING LINEWHITE MEDIUM SQUARE (Modal logic: always, or necessarily) B
◛◫◻
◛◫◻
UPPER LEFT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARCWHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH DOTBLACK MEDIUM SQUARE C
◜◬◼
◜◬◼
UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARCUP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACKWHITE MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE D
◝◭◽
◝◭◽
LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARCUP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACKBLACK MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE E
◞◮◾
◞◮◾
LOWER LEFT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARCLARGE CIRCLELOWER RIGHT TRIANGLE F
◟◯◿
◟◯◿
25D025E025F0 

Font coverage

Font sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Geometric Shapes range.[4] Unifont also contains all the glyphs.[5] Among the fonts in widespread use,[6][7] 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.[4]

Block

Geometric Shapes[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+25Ax
U+25Bx
U+25Cx
U+25Dx
U+25Ex
U+25Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0

Emoji

The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji: U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE.[8][9]

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji.[10]

Emoji variation sequences
U+25AA25AB25B625C025FB25FC25FD25FE
default presentationtexttexttexttexttexttextemojiemoji
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:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+25A0..25EE79(to be determined)
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]N4182Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
1.0.1U+25EF1(to be determined)
3.0U+25F0..25F78N1138LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646
N1203Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.6", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
N1303 (html, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo
L2/97-128N1564Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket")
L2/97-288N1603Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "7.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997
L2/98-005RN1682Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17
L2/98-320N1898ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22
N1897Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM22 - Keyboard Symbols - SC2 N3191
L2/99-010N1903 (pdf, html, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/99-126Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols
3.2U+25F8..25FE7L2/00-119[lower-alpha 4]N2191RWhistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
L2/00-234N2203 (rtf, txt)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
L2/00-115R2Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]N4182Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
U+25FF1L2/01-156N2356Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)
L2/01-344N2353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  3. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  4. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents
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See also

References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  4. "Font Support for Unicode Block 'Geometric Shapes'". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  5. "GNU Unifont Glyphs". Unifoundry.com. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  6. "Mac OS X 10.5 bundled with Arial Unicode MS". Archived from the original on 2011-05-10. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  7. "Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  8. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2020-02-11.
  9. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2020-01-28.
  10. "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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