What is the difference between White Parallelogram and Flatness?

White Parallelogram is U+25B1 in the Geometric Shapes block. Flatness is U+23E5 in the Miscellaneous Technical block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for White Parallelogram?

The HTML entity for White Parallelogram (U+25B1) is ▱.

What is the HTML entity for Flatness?

The HTML entity for Flatness (U+23E5) is ⏥.

Are White Parallelogram and Flatness the same Unicode character?

No. White Parallelogram is U+25B1 (decimal 9649) and Flatness is U+23E5 (decimal 9189). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of White Parallelogram and Flatness?

White Parallelogram (U+25B1) encodes as E2 96 B1 in UTF-8. Flatness (U+23E5) encodes as E2 8F A5 in UTF-8.

White Parallelogram vs Flatness

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.

▱

White Parallelogram

U+25B1

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⏥

Flatness

U+23E5

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Property Comparison

Property	White Parallelogram	Flatness
Codepoint	`U+25B1`	`U+23E5`
Decimal	`9649`	`9189`
HTML Entity	`▱`	`⏥`
HTML Decimal	`▱`	`⏥`
HTML Hex	`▱`	`⏥`
UTF-8	`E2 96 B1`	`E2 8F A5`
UTF-16	`25 B1`	`23 E5`
UTF-32	`000025B1`	`000023E5`
CSS Escape	`\25B1`	`\23E5`
JS Escape	`\u25B1`	`\u23E5`
Python Escape	`\u25B1`	`\u23E5`
URL Encoded	`%E2%96%B1`	`%E2%8F%A5`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Geometric Shapes`	`Miscellaneous Technical`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`5.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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