Lower Half Block
Part of Box Drawing Characters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 220 on the numeric keypad to insert lower half block.
- Alt code
- Alt+220
- HTML entity
- ▄
- Unicode
- U+2584
About this symbol
The lower half block, Alt+220, fills the bottom half of a character cell, the partner of ▀. Programs still use the pair to draw pictures and QR codes in text terminals, two pixels to each character.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LOWER HALF BLOCK
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Block Elements
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Box Drawing Characters chart for related characters.