White medium square
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- Shortcode
:white_medium_square:- Unicode
U+25FB- HTML
◻- CSS
\25FB- JavaScript
"\u{25FB}"- URL
%E2%97%BB%EF%B8%8F
What ◻️ means
A medium white square. It works as an empty box, a light bullet, or a blank tile.
People use ◻️ as an unticked checkbox in plain-text lists, then swap it for ☑️ or ✅ when the item is done. It also fits light, minimal layouts where a black square would feel heavy.
Facts
White 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 :white_medium_square:. People also look for it with words like “geometric”, “medium”, “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.