Black medium square
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- Shortcode
:black_medium_square:- Unicode
U+25FC- HTML
◼- CSS
\25FC- JavaScript
"\u{25FC}"- URL
%E2%97%BC%EF%B8%8F
What ◼️ means
A medium black square. It works as a bullet, a block, or a minimal mark.
People use ◼️ to start list items, to frame section titles, or to draw simple shapes. It suits clean, monochrome bios and captions.
On some systems it shows as a plain text square instead of a colored emoji, depending on the font.
Facts
Black medium 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_square:. People also look for it with words like “black”, “geometric”, “medium”, or “square”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.