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

Quadrant Upper Right is U+259D in the Block Elements block. Quadrant Upper Left is U+2598 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 Upper Right?

The HTML entity for Quadrant Upper Right (U+259D) is ▝.

What is the HTML entity for Quadrant Upper Left?

The HTML entity for Quadrant Upper Left (U+2598) is ▘.

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

No. Quadrant Upper Right is U+259D (decimal 9629) and Quadrant Upper Left is U+2598 (decimal 9624). They are separate codepoints.

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

Quadrant Upper Right (U+259D) encodes as E2 96 9D in UTF-8. Quadrant Upper Left (U+2598) encodes as E2 96 98 in UTF-8.

Quadrant Upper Right vs Quadrant Upper 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.

▝

Quadrant Upper Right

U+259D

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▘

Quadrant Upper Left

U+2598

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Property Comparison

Property	Quadrant Upper Right	Quadrant Upper Left
Codepoint	`U+259D`	`U+2598`
Decimal	`9629`	`9624`
HTML Entity	`▝`	`▘`
HTML Decimal	`▝`	`▘`
HTML Hex	`▝`	`▘`
UTF-8	`E2 96 9D`	`E2 96 98`
UTF-16	`25 9D`	`25 98`
UTF-32	`0000259D`	`00002598`
CSS Escape	`\259D`	`\2598`
JS Escape	`\u259D`	`\u2598`
Python Escape	`\u259D`	`\u2598`
URL Encoded	`%E2%96%9D`	`%E2%96%98`
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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