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Geometric Shapes (Unicode block)

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Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.

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Font coverage

Font sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Geometric Shapes range.[4] Unifont also contains all the glyphs.[5] Among the fonts in widespread use,[6][7] full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol and significant partial implementation of this range is provided by Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode, which include coverage for 83% (80 out of 96) and 82% (79 out of 96) of the symbols, respectively.[4]

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Geometric Shapes[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+25Ax
U+25Bx
U+25Cx
U+25Dx
U+25Ex
U+25Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

Emoji

The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji: U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE.[8][9]

The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji.[10]

Emoji variation sequences
U+25AA25AB25B625C025FB25FC25FD25FE
default presentationtexttexttexttexttexttextemojiemoji
base code point
base+VS15 (text)
base+VS16 (emoji)

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Geometric Shapes block:

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