Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.

U+25A0–U+25CF

25A025B025C0
SymbolNameSymbolNameSymbolNameLast Hex#
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■BLACK SQUARE▰BLACK PARALLELOGRAM◀BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE0
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□WHITE SQUARE▱WHITE PARALLELOGRAM◁WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation domain restriction)1
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▢WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS▲BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE◂BLACK LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE2
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▣WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE△WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE (trine)◃WHITE LEFT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE3
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▤SQUARE WITH HORIZONTAL FILL▴BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◄BLACK LEFT-POINTING POINTER4
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▥SQUARE WITH VERTICAL FILL▵WHITE UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◅WHITE LEFT-POINTING POINTER5
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▦SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL▶BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE◆BLACK DIAMOND6
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▧SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILL▷WHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE (Z notation range restriction)◇WHITE DIAMOND7
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▨SQUARE WITH UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT FILL▸BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◈WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND8
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▩SQUARE WITH DIAGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL▹WHITE RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◉FISHEYE (Tainome, a Japanese bullet mark)9
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▪BLACK SMALL SQUARE►BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER◊LOZENGEA
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▫WHITE SMALL SQUARE▻WHITE RIGHT-POINTING POINTER○WHITE CIRCLEB
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▬BLACK RECTANGLE▼BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE◌DOTTED CIRCLEC
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▭WHITE RECTANGLE▽WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE (Nabla operator)◍CIRCLE WITH VERTICAL FILLD
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▮BLACK VERTICAL RECTANGLE▾BLACK DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE◎BULLSEYEE
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▯WHITE VERTICAL RECTANGLE▿WHITE DOWN-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE●BLACK CIRCLEF
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25A025B025C0

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. Unifont also contains all the glyphs. Among the fonts in widespread use, 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.

Block

Geometric Shapes[1] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+25Ax■□▢▣▤▥▦▧▨▩▪▫▬▭▮▯
U+25Bx▰▱▲△▴▵▶▷▸▹►▻▼▽▾▿
U+25Cx◀◁◂◃◄◅◆◇◈◉◊○◌◍◎●
U+25Dx◐◑◒◓◔◕◖◗◘◙◚◛◜◝◞◟
U+25Ex◠◡◢◣◤◥◦◧◨◩◪◫◬◭◮◯
U+25Fx◰◱◲◳◴◵◶◷◸◹◺◻◼◽◾◿
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0

Emoji

The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji: U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE.

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji.

Emoji variation sequences
U+25AA25AB25B625C025FB25FC25FD25FE
default presentationtexttexttexttexttexttextemojiemoji
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:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+25A0..25EE79(to be determined)
Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
1.1U+25EF1(to be determined)
3.0U+25F0..25F78N1138LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646
Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.6", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo
L2/97-128N1564Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket")
L2/97-288Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "7.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
N1682Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17
ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22
Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM22 - Keyboard Symbols - SC2 N3191
, , )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols
3.2U+25F8..25FE7Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
U+25FF1Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001

See also