▥
Square With Vertical Fill
- Unicode
- U+25A5
- Category
- Geometric
- HTML Entity
- ▥
- CSS
- \25A5
The ▥ (Square with Vertical Fill) symbol is a geometric character featuring a pattern of parallel vertical lines inside a box. Originally added to Unicode for compatibility with legacy graphic character sets, it frequently appears in digital cartography to denote shaded areas, in architectural drafting, or as a textured bullet point in typography.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9637
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "square with vertical fill"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U 25A5 Space
- HTML
- ▥
In Programming
In UI design and front-end development, this symbol is occasionally used as a lightweight text icon to represent column layouts, table toggles, or wireframe views.
Tags
architectural hatching
ASCII shading
cartography shading symbol
fill
geometric
hatched
map texture pattern
pattern
unicode pattern square
vertical hatching
vertical lines square
vertical stripes square