Black medium-small square

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Shortcode
:black_medium_small_square:
Unicode
U+25FE
HTML
◾
CSS
\25FE
JavaScript
"\u{25FE}"
URL
%E2%97%BE

blackgeometricmedium-smallsquare

What ◾ means

A black square slightly smaller than ◼️. It works as a compact bullet or divider.

People use ◾ between words in bios and captions, like 'artist ◾ writer ◾ cat person', or to start short list items. It reads as tidy and neutral, with no mood of its own.

Facts

Black medium-small square ◾ is an emoji in the symbols category, under geometric. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :black_medium_small_square:. People also look for it with words like “black”, “geometric”, “medium-small”, or “square”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. black medium-small square, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. black medium-small square, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. black medium-small square, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. black medium-small square, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. black medium-small square, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0