What is the difference between Quadrant Lower Right and Quadrant Lower Left?

Quadrant Lower Right is U+2597 in the Block Elements block. Quadrant Lower Left is U+2596 in the Block Elements block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Quadrant Lower Right?

The HTML entity for Quadrant Lower Right (U+2597) is ▗.

What is the HTML entity for Quadrant Lower Left?

The HTML entity for Quadrant Lower Left (U+2596) is ▖.

Are Quadrant Lower Right and Quadrant Lower Left the same Unicode character?

No. Quadrant Lower Right is U+2597 (decimal 9623) and Quadrant Lower Left is U+2596 (decimal 9622). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Quadrant Lower Right and Quadrant Lower Left?

Quadrant Lower Right (U+2597) encodes as E2 96 97 in UTF-8. Quadrant Lower Left (U+2596) encodes as E2 96 96 in UTF-8.

Quadrant Lower Right vs Quadrant Lower Left

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

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Quadrant Lower Right

U+2597

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Quadrant Lower Left

U+2596

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Property Comparison

Property	Quadrant Lower Right	Quadrant Lower Left
Codepoint	`U+2597`	`U+2596`
Decimal	`9623`	`9622`
HTML Entity	`▗`	`▖`
HTML Decimal	`▗`	`▖`
HTML Hex	`▗`	`▖`
UTF-8	`E2 96 97`	`E2 96 96`
UTF-16	`25 97`	`25 96`
UTF-32	`00002597`	`00002596`
CSS Escape	`\2597`	`\2596`
JS Escape	`\u2597`	`\u2596`
Python Escape	`\u2597`	`\u2596`
URL Encoded	`%E2%96%97`	`%E2%96%96`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Block Elements`	`Block Elements`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`3.2`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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