A ticked check box, like a completed item on a form or a ballot. It means checked off, selected, or done.
People use ☑️ for to-do lists, survey answers and 'I voted' posts. It looks more like paperwork than ✅, so it suits lists and forms where an empty ◻️ sits on the next line.
Facts
Check box with check ☑️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under other symbol. 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 :ballot_box_with_check: or :check_box_with_check:. People also look for it with words like “ballot”, “box”, “check”, or “checked”.
Timeline
2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2019
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.