Geometric Shapes (Unicode block)

Geometric Shapes (Unicode block)

Block of Unicode symbols


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

Quick Facts Range, Plane ...

U+25A0–U+25CF

More information 25A0, 25B0 ...

The BLACK CIRCLE is displayed when typing in a password field, in order to hide characters from a screen recorder or shoulder surfing.

U+25D0–U+25FF

More information 25D0, 25E0 ...

The CIRCLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK is used to represent the contrast ratio of a screen.

Font coverage

Font sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Geometric Shapes range.[4] Unifont also contains all the glyphs.[5] Among the fonts in widespread use,[6][7] 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.[4]

Block

Geometric Shapes[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+25Ax
U+25Bx
U+25Cx
U+25Dx
U+25Ex
U+25Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

Emoji

The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji: U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE.[8][9]

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji.[10]

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:

More information Version, Final code points ...

See also


References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  4. "GNU Unifont Glyphs". Unifoundry.com. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  5. "Mac OS X 10.5 bundled with Arial Unicode MS". Archived from the original on 2011-05-10. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  6. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  7. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.

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