White large square
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- Shortcode
:white_large_square:- Unicode
U+2B1C- HTML
⬜- CSS
\2B1C- JavaScript
"\u{2B1C}"- URL
%E2%AC%9C
What ⬜ means
A large solid white square. It works as a blank block, an empty box, or a light space in grids.
In light-mode word game grids ⬜ marks a letter that is not in the answer. It also serves as an empty checkbox in to-do lists, a background tile in pixel art, and a quiet spacer.
Facts
White large 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 :white_large_square:. People also look for it with words like “geometric”, “large”, “square”, or “white”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.