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🔲Black Square Button Emoji
🔲 black square button — U+1F532, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 34 shapes & colors emojis under Symbols.
What 🔲 black square button 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, button and geometric and files it under Symbols → Shapes & Colors.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F532 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔲 | |
| HTML decimal | 🔲 | |
| CSS | \1F532 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F532} | |
| Python | \U0001F532 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD32 | |
| Rust | \u{1f532} | |
| Swift | \u{1F532} | |
| PHP | \u{1F532} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%B2 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 B2 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD32 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Usg== | |
| Decimal | 128306 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🔲
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “black square button”. - 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 type1f532and 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 square button emoji mean?+
🔲 is the black square button emoji, tagged black, button and geometric. 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 square button is U+1F532. In HTML that is 🔲, in CSS \1F532, and in JavaScript \u{1F532}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔲 emoji added?+
black square button 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 square button.