Black Rectangle
Part of Geometric Shapes
On Windows, hold Alt and type 22 on the numeric keypad to insert black rectangle.
- Alt code
- Alt+22
- HTML entity
- ▬
- Unicode
- U+25AC
About this symbol
▬, the black rectangle, is Alt+22 from the IBM PC’s character set, one of the pictures given to the control codes 1 to 31. DOS games and programs used it for bars and blocks.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BLACK RECTANGLE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Geometric Shapes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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