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◼️Black Medium Square Emoji
◼️ black medium square — U+25FC U+FE0F, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 34 shapes & colors emojis under Symbols.
What ◼️ black medium square means
Coloured circles, squares, diamonds and triangles used as bullets, swatches, progress bars and rating scales, since they line up neatly in a way faces never do. Most of the colours are recent: the orange, yellow, green, purple and brown circles and squares only arrived with Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Wordle later made the green, yellow and black squares instantly readable.
Unicode tags this one black, geometric and medium and files it under Symbols → Shapes & Colors.
Copy variants
black medium square carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ◼️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ◼U+25FCblack medium square
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+25FC U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ◼️ | |
| HTML decimal | ◼️ | |
| CSS | \25FC\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{25FC}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U000025FC\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u25FC\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{25fc}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{25FC}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{25FC}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%97%BC%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 97 BC EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 25FC FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pe877iP | |
| Decimal | 9724 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ◼️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “black medium square”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “black”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type25fcand Enter. - HTML — paste
◼️.
How ◼️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ◼️Apple
- ◼️Segoe
- ◼️Noto
- ◼️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the ◼️ black medium square emoji mean?+
◼️ is the black medium square emoji, tagged black, geometric and medium. Coloured circles, squares, diamonds and triangles used as bullets, swatches, progress bars and rating scales, since they line up neatly in a way faces never do. Most of the colours are recent: the orange, yellow, green, purple and brown circles and squares only arrived with Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Wordle later made the green, yellow and black squares instantly readable.
What is the Unicode code for ◼️?+
black medium square is U+25FC U+FE0F. In HTML that is ◼️, in CSS \25FC\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{25FC}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ◼️ emoji added?+
black medium square got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Shapes & Colors in Symbols.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ◼️ black medium square.