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▪️Black Small Square Emoji

▪️ black small square — U+25AA U+FE0F, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 34 shapes & colors emojis under Symbols.

What ▪️ black small 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 small and files it under Symbols → Shapes & Colors.

Copy variants

black small 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+25AAblack small square
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+25AA U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`▪️`
HTML decimal	`▪️`
CSS	`\25AA\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{25AA}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U000025AA\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u25AA\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{25aa}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{25AA}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{25AA}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%96%AA%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 96 AA EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`25AA FE0F`
Base64	`4paq77iP`
Decimal	`9642 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

black
geometric
small
square

Appears in these collections

How to type ▪️

Windows — press Win + . and search “black small square”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “black”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 25aa and 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 small square emoji mean?+

▪️ is the black small square emoji, tagged black, geometric and small. 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 small square is U+25AA U+FE0F. In HTML that is ▪️, in CSS \25AA\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{25AA}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ▪️ emoji added?+

black small 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.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ▪️ black small square.