Geometric Shapes (Unicode block)

Geometric Shapes
Geometric Shapes
Range	U+25A0..U+25FF; (96 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Common
Symbol sets	Control code graphics; Geometric shapes
Assigned	96 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode Version History
1.0.0 (1991)	79 (+79)
1.1 (1993)	80 (+1)
3.0 (1999)	88 (+8)
3.2 (2002)	96 (+8)
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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	Name	HTML Hex	Name	HTML Hex	Name
Dec	Picture	Dec	Picture	Dec	Picture
■	BLACK SQUARE	▰	BLACK PARALLELOGRAM	◀	BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE	0
■	BLACK SQUARE	▰	BLACK PARALLELOGRAM	◀	BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE
■		▰		◀
□	WHITE SQUARE	▱	WHITE PARALLELOGRAM	◁	WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation domain restriction)	1
□	WHITE SQUARE	▱	WHITE PARALLELOGRAM	◁
□		▱		◁
▢	WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS	▲	BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE	◂	BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	2
▢	WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS	▲	BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE	◂	BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE
▢		▲		◂
▣	WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE	△	WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE (trine)	◃	WHITE LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	3
▣	WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE	△	WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE (trine)	◃	WHITE LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE
▣		△		◃
▤	SQUARE WITH HORIZONTAL FILL	▴	BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◄	BLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER	4
▤	SQUARE WITH HORIZONTAL FILL	▴	BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◄	BLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER
▤		▴		◄
▥	SQUARE WITH VERTICAL FILL	▵	WHITE UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◅	WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER	5
▥	SQUARE WITH VERTICAL FILL	▵	WHITE UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◅	WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER
▥		▵		◅
▦	SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL	▶	BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE	◆	BLACK DIAMOND	6
▦	SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL	▶	BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE	◆	BLACK DIAMOND
▦		▶		◆
▧	SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILL	▷	WHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation range restriction)	◇	WHITE DIAMOND	7
▧	SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILL	▷		◇	WHITE DIAMOND
▧		▷		◇
▨	SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILL	▸	BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◈	WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND	8
▨	SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILL	▸	BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◈	WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND
▨		▸		◈
▩	SQUARE WITH DIAGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL	▹	WHITE RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◉	FISHEYE (Tainome, a Japanese bullet mark)	9
▩	SQUARE WITH DIAGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL	▹	WHITE RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◉	FISHEYE (Tainome, a Japanese bullet mark)
▩		▹		◉
▪	BLACK SMALL SQUARE	►	BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER	◊	LOZENGE	A
▪	BLACK SMALL SQUARE	►	BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER	◊	LOZENGE
▪		►		◊
▫	WHITE SMALL SQUARE	▻	WHITE RIGHT-POINTING POINTER	○	WHITE CIRCLE	B
▫	WHITE SMALL SQUARE	▻	WHITE RIGHT-POINTING POINTER	○	WHITE CIRCLE
▫		▻		○
▬	BLACK RECTANGLE	▼	BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE	◌	DOTTED CIRCLE	C
▬	BLACK RECTANGLE	▼	BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE	◌	DOTTED CIRCLE
▬		▼		◌
▭	WHITE RECTANGLE	▽	WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE (Nabla operator)	◍	CIRCLE WITH VERTICAL FILL	D
▭	WHITE RECTANGLE	▽	WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE (Nabla operator)	◍	CIRCLE WITH VERTICAL FILL
▭		▽		◍
▮	BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE	▾	BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◎	BULLSEYE	E
▮	BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE	▾	BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	◎	BULLSEYE
▮		▾		◎
▯	WHITE VERTICAL RECTANGLE	▿	WHITE DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	●	BLACK CIRCLE	F
▯	WHITE VERTICAL RECTANGLE	▿	WHITE DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE	●	BLACK CIRCLE
▯		▿		●
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.^[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)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+25Ax	■	□	▢	▣	▤	▥	▦	▧	▨	▩	▪	▫	▬	▭	▮	▯
U+25Bx	▰	▱	▲	△	▴	▵	▶	▷	▸	▹	►	▻	▼	▽	▾	▿
U+25Cx	◀	◁	◂	◃	◄	◅	◆	◇	◈	◉	◊	○	◌	◍	◎	●
U+25Dx	◐	◑	◒	◓	◔	◕	◖	◗	◘	◙	◚	◛	◜	◝	◞	◟
U+25Ex	◠	◡	◢	◣	◤	◥	◦	◧	◨	◩	◪	◫	◬	◭	◮	◯
U+25Fx	◰	◱	◲	◳	◴	◵	◶	◷	◸	◹	◺	◻	◼	◽	◾	◿
Notes 1.^As of Unicode version 18.0

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+	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	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+25A0..25EE	79			(to be determined)
1.0.0	U+25A0..25EE	79	L2/11-438^[b]^[c]	N4182	Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
1.1	U+25EF	1			(to be determined)
3.0	U+25F0..25F7	8		N1138	LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646
				N1203	Umamaheswaran, 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
			L2/97-128	N1564	Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket")
			L2/97-288	N1603	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "7.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
			L2/98-005R	N1682	Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17
			L2/98-320	N1898	ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22
				N1897	Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM22 - Keyboard Symbols - SC2 N3191
			L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
			L2/99-126		Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols
3.2	U+25F8..25FE	7	L2/00-119^[d]	N2191R	Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
			L2/00-234	N2203 (rtf, txt)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
			L2/00-115R2		Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
			L2/11-438^[b]^[c]	N4182	Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
	U+25FF	1	L2/01-156	N2356	Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)
	U+25FF	1	L2/01-344	N2353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names 1 2 See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429 1 2 Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents ↑ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents

References

↑ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
1 2 "Font Support for Unicode Block 'Geometric Shapes'". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ "GNU Unifont Glyphs". Unifoundry.com. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
↑ "Mac OS X 10.5 bundled with Arial Unicode MS". Archived from the original on 2011-05-10. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ "Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents". Retrieved 2008-09-17.
↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.

[final-11] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[also10458-12] 1 2 See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429

[emojidocs-13] 1 2 Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents

[mathdocs-14] Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents

[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 2023-07-26.

[3] "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[fileinfo-4] 1 2 "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.

[UTR51-8] "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.

[EmojiData-9] "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.

[10] "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.

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