Black small square
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- Shortcode
:black_small_square:- Unicode
U+25AA- HTML
▪- CSS
\25AA- JavaScript
"\u{25AA}"- URL
%E2%96%AA%EF%B8%8F
What ▪️ means
A small black square, about the size of a heavy dot. It works as a tiny bullet or separator.
People use ▪️ to start list lines, to split hashtags from text, or to mark small points in a thread. It is the subtle option when ◼️ feels too heavy.
Facts
Black 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_small_square:. People also look for it with words like “black”, “geometric”, “small”, or “square”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.