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Geometric Shapes

U+25A0 – U+25FF   (9632–9727)

Other geometric shapes can be found in the Geometric Shapes Extended range. Characters 9632, 9633, 9642-9644, 9650, 9658, 9660, 9668, 9674, 9675, 9679, 9688, 9689 and 9702 are present in Microsoft’s WGL4 character set. Character 9674 provides a Unicode equivalent for one of the characters in Apple’s MacRoman character set and in Monotype’s Symbol font.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages. The entries in the “Entity” column are named character entities that can be used in HTML pages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Alexander (few), Alfios (few), Anaktoria (few), Andale Mono (few), Andron Scriptor Web, AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, AR PL ZenKai Uni, Arial, Arial Unicode MS, Aroania (few), Atavyros (few), Avdira (few), BabelStone Han (few), Baekmuk Batang, Baekmuk Dotum, Baekmuk Gulim, Baekmuk Headline, Batang, BatangChe, Bitstream CyberBase, Bitstream CyberBit, Bitstream CyberCJK, BPG Paata Khutsuri U, Caslon, Century, Chrysanthi Unicode, CN-Arial, CN-Times, Code2000, Courier MonoThai, Courier New, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Sans Mono, DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Serif Condensed, EversonMono, Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Idg Serif, Free Monospaced, Free Sans, Free Serif, Gandhari Unicode, Garava, Gulim Che, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe, HAN NOM A, HAN NOM B, HY Shin Myeongjo Std Acro, Impact, jGaramond, Kliment Std, Kochi Gothic, Kochi Mincho, Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro, Legendum, Linux Biolinum O, Linux Libertine O, Lucida Console (few), Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Malgun Gothic, MD King KhammuRabi, Ming(for ISO10646), MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, Monospace, MPH 2B Damase, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, MS UI Gothic, MSung Std Acro, MyMyanmar, New Gulim, NSimSun, NSimSun-18030, OpenSymbol, PMingLiU, Quivira, RomanCyrillic Std, Roman Unicode, Sazanami Gothic, Sazanami Mincho, Segoe Print, Segoe Script (few), SimHei, SImPL, SimSun, SimSun-18030, sixpack, StarSymbol, STIXGeneral, STSong Std Acro, Sun-ExtA, Symbola, Times New Roman, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, TSC FMing S TT, UnBatang, UniBurma, Verajja, WenQuanYi Zen Hei, WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono, and YOzFontN; in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts Apple LiGothic, Apple LiSung, BiauKai, ChuGothic, HeiseiKakuGothic, HeiseiMincho, Osaka, Osaka-Mono, SaiMincho and Taipei; in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts AppleGothic, Apple LiGothic, Apple LiSung, AppleMyungjo, Apple Symbols, Arial, Batang, BiauKai, Century, #GothicMedium, Gulim, #GungSeo, Hangang, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro, Hiragino Mincho Pro, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, #MyungjoNeue, Osaka, Osaka-Mono, #PCMyungjo, #PilGi, PMingLiU, Seoul, SimSun, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong, #TaeGraphic, Taipei and Times New Roman; and in the Unix Unicode fonts Caslon and ClearlyU.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, Apple’s TrueEdit, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf.

Copyright © 1999–2010 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.2 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2002 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2002.

Created 3rd February 1999   Last updated 7th November 2010