White small square
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- Shortcode
:white_small_square:- Unicode
U+25AB- HTML
▫- CSS
\25AB- JavaScript
"\u{25AB}"- URL
%E2%96%AB%EF%B8%8F
What ▫️ means
A small white square. It is the lightest of the square bullets, a near-invisible mark.
People use ▫️ as a soft bullet or as a spacer in bios and captions. On light backgrounds it almost disappears, which some people use on purpose to add breathing room between lines.
Facts
White 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 :white_small_square:. People also look for it with words like “geometric”, “small”, “square”, or “white”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.