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Geometric Shapes

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Plane
  
BMP

Assigned
  
96 code points

Scripts
  
Common

Unused
  
0 reserved code points

Range
  
U+25A0..U+25FF (96 code points)

Symbol sets
  
Control code graphics Geometric shapes

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

Contents

Font coverage

Font sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family—include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Geometric Shapes range, Unifont also contains all the glyphs. Among the fonts in widespread use, 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.

Emoji

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

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

References

Geometric Shapes Wikipedia