Upper Half Block
Part of Box Drawing Characters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 223 on the numeric keypad to insert upper half block.
- Alt code
- Alt+223
- HTML entity
- ▀
- Unicode
- U+2580
About this symbol
The upper half block, Alt+223, fills the top half of a character cell. Combined with its partner ▄ and different colours above and below, it let DOS programs draw pictures at twice the height resolution of the text itself.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- UPPER 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.