Meaning
A small, solid black square. It commonly serves as a bullet point, list marker, or decorative separator in text, and can stand in for a checkbox or placeholder. In design and formatting contexts, it often indicates a filled or selected state. It can also be used as a minimal geometric accent or to represent a pixel. Because it is purely abstract, its meaning depends heavily on surrounding context, so it can be ambiguous when used alone.
Black small 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+25AA U+FE0Fblack small squareE2 96 AA EF B8 8FShortcodes
:black_small_square:HTML & CSS
▪️▪️\25AA \FE0F Languages
\u{25AA}\u{FE0F}\u25AA\uFE0F\x{25AA}\x{FE0F}\u{25AA}\u{FE0F}Encodings
xn--30h0620f%E2%96%AA%EF%B8%8FFrequently asked
What does ▪️ black small square mean?
A small, solid black square. It commonly serves as a bullet point, list marker, or decorative separator in text, and can stand in for a checkbox or placeholder. In design and formatting contexts, it often indicates a filled or selected state. It can also be used as a minimal geometric accent or to represent a pixel. Because it is purely abstract, its meaning depends heavily on surrounding context, so it can be ambiguous when used alone.
What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for ▪️ black small square?
U+25AA U+FE0F (Unicode 6.0, 2010) · :black_small_square:
Which emojis are related to ▪️ black small square?
🔴 red circle, 🟠 orange circle, 🟡 yellow circle, 🟢 green circle, 🔵 blue circle, 🟣 purple circle, 🟤 brown circle, ⚫ black circle