Medium Shade
Part of Box Drawing Characters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 177 on the numeric keypad to insert medium shade.
- Alt code
- Alt+177
- HTML entity
- ▒
- Unicode
- U+2592
About this symbol
The medium shade, Alt+177, sits between ░ and ▓ in the IBM PC’s character set. DOS programs often filled the background of their screens with it.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MEDIUM SHADE
- Also called
- Speckles fill, dotted fill
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Block Elements
- Unicode group
- Shade characters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- 50%
- Used in mapping to cp949
- Related
- 🮐 Inverse Medium Shade U+1FB90
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.