Geometric Shapes

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

This article is about the Unicode typography block. For shapes in geometry, see Geometric shape. Several symbols redirect here. For the Pearl Jam song "🔴", see Yield (album). For media control buttons, see Media controls. For the Nazi badge ▼, see Black triangle (badge).
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 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
▯▿●
▯▿●
25A025B025C0 

U+25D0-U+25FF
25D025E025F0 
SymbolNameSymbolNameSymbolName Last Hex#
HTML HexHTML HexHTML Hex
DecPictureDecPictureDecPicture
◐CIRCLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK◠UPPER HALF CIRCLE◰WHITE SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT QUADRANT 0
◐◠◰
◐◠◰
◑CIRCLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK◡LOWER HALF CIRCLE◱WHITE SQUARE WITH LOWER LEFT QUADRANT 1
◑◡◱
◑◡◱
◒CIRCLE WITH LOWER HALF BLACK◢BLACK LOWER RIGHT TRIANGLE◲WHITE SQUARE WITH LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT 2
◒◢◲
◒◢◲
◓CIRCLE WITH UPPER HALF BLACK◣BLACK LOWER LEFT TRIANGLE◳WHITE SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT 3
◓◣◳
◓◣◳
◔CIRCLE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT BLACK◤BLACK UPPER LEFT TRIANGLE◴WHITE CIRCLE WITH UPPER LEFT QUADRANT 4
◔◤◴
◔◤◴
◕CIRCLE WITH ALL BUT UPPER LEFT QUADRANT BLACK◥BLACK UPPER RIGHT TRIANGLE◵WHITE CIRCLE WITH LOWER LEFT QUADRANT 5
◕◥◵
◕◥◵
◖LEFT HALF BLACK CIRCLE◦WHITE BULLET◶WHITE CIRCLE WITH LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT 6
◖◦◶
◖◦◶
◗RIGHT HALF BLACK CIRCLE◧SQUARE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK◷WHITE CIRCLE WITH UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT 7
◗◧◷
◗◧◷
◘INVERSE BULLET◨SQUARE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK◸UPPER LEFT TRIANGLE 8
◘◨◸
◘◨◸
◙INVERSE WHITE CIRCLE◩SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT DIAGONAL HALF BLACK◹UPPER RIGHT TRIANGLE 9
◙◩◹
◙◩◹
◚UPPER HALF INVERSE WHITE CIRCLE◪SQUARE WITH LOWER RIGHT DIAGONAL HALF BLACK◺LOWER LEFT TRIANGLE A
◚◪◺
◚◪◺
◛LOWER HALF INVERSE WHITE CIRCLE◫WHITE SQUARE WITH VERTICAL BISECTING LINE◻WHITE MEDIUM SQUARE (Modal logic: always, or necessarily) B
◛◫◻
◛◫◻
◜UPPER LEFT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC◬WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH DOT◼BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE C
◜◬◼
◜◬◼
◝UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC◭UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK◽WHITE MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE D
◝◭◽
◝◭◽
◞LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC◮UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK◾BLACK MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE E
◞◮◾
◞◮◾
◟LOWER LEFT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC◯LARGE CIRCLE◿LOWER 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
gollark: Yes, privacy-focused stuff often lacks features. But even if someone came up with "Facebook but significantly better somehow", network effects mean adoption would be very slow.
gollark: Discord isn't ideal, but at least they seem to have a mostly non-data-harvesting business model and somewhat better privacy policy.
gollark: Pretty much, as long as they are also not exposing data from their friends/contacts to big companies too.
gollark: That's a different thing, I guess.
gollark: The network effects thing also doesn't apply to, say, use of other random cloud services. Unless you are also synchronizing your contacts and other data vaguely related to other people to those.

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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