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white square button

A white square with a thin dark outline, resembling a blank button or key

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Code points
U+1F533
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Meaning

A white square with a thin dark outline, resembling a blank button or key. It commonly represents a placeholder, an unchecked box, or an empty slot in diagrams, lists, and interfaces. In conversation it can stand in for something blank, missing, or yet to be filled, and is sometimes used decoratively as a plain geometric shape. Its meaning is often ambiguous, since it may simply serve as a neutral visual marker rather than conveying a specific idea. Context usually determines whether it signals emptiness, selection, or pure decoration.

White square button — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

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Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

Quick facts

Quick facts

Code points
U+1F533
Unicode name
white square button
Category
SymbolsGeometric
Unicode
6.0 · 2010Emoji 0.6
Keywords
buttongeometricoutlinedsquarewhiteemojimeaningmean

Developer

Single code point
Unicode data
Code pointsU+1F533
Unicode namewhite square button
UTF-8F0 9F 94 B3
Shortcodes
Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):white_square_button:
HTML & CSS
HTML (hex)🔳
HTML (decimal)🔳
CSS\1F533
Languages
JavaScript\u{1F533}
Python\U0001F533
Perl\x{1F533}
PHP / Ruby\u{1F533}
Encodings
Punycodexn--jw8h
URL escape code%F0%9F%94%B3

Frequently asked

What does 🔳 white square button mean?

A white square with a thin dark outline, resembling a blank button or key. It commonly represents a placeholder, an unchecked box, or an empty slot in diagrams, lists, and interfaces. In conversation it can stand in for something blank, missing, or yet to be filled, and is sometimes used decoratively as a plain geometric shape. Its meaning is often ambiguous, since it may simply serve as a neutral visual marker rather than conveying a specific idea. Context usually determines whether it signals emptiness, selection, or pure decoration.

What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for 🔳 white square button?

U+1F533 (Unicode 6.0, 2010) · :white_square_button:

Which emojis are related to 🔳 white square button?

🔴 red circle, 🟠 orange circle, 🟡 yellow circle, 🟢 green circle, 🔵 blue circle, 🟣 purple circle, 🟤 brown circle, ⚫ black circle