Meaning
A solid black square shape. It commonly serves as a visual block, bullet, or divider in text, and can stand in for a missing or redacted word. In casual messages it often conveys blankness, emptiness, or a deliberately neutral placeholder, and it appears in patterns or grids alongside other colored squares. It can also represent the color black itself. Because it carries no fixed meaning, interpretation depends heavily on context, so it is best read as a graphic element rather than a specific symbol.
Black large square — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
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Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.
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Unicode data
U+2B1Bblack large squareE2 AC 9BShortcodes
:black_large_square:HTML & CSS
⬛⬛\2B1B Languages
\u{2B1B}\u2B1B\x{2B1B}\u{2B1B}Encodings
xn--w5i%E2%AC%9BFrequently asked
What does ⬛ black large square mean?
A solid black square shape. It commonly serves as a visual block, bullet, or divider in text, and can stand in for a missing or redacted word. In casual messages it often conveys blankness, emptiness, or a deliberately neutral placeholder, and it appears in patterns or grids alongside other colored squares. It can also represent the color black itself. Because it carries no fixed meaning, interpretation depends heavily on context, so it is best read as a graphic element rather than a specific symbol.
What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for ⬛ black large square?
U+2B1B (Unicode 6.0, 2010) · :black_large_square:
Which emojis are related to ⬛ black large square?
🔴 red circle, 🟠 orange circle, 🟡 yellow circle, 🟢 green circle, 🔵 blue circle, 🟣 purple circle, 🟤 brown circle, ⚫ black circle