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U+23F9 · BLACK SQUARE FOR STOP

Black Square for Stop

  • CodepointU+23F9
  • NameBLACK SQUARE FOR STOP
  • Emoji namestop button
  • Decimal9209
  • BlockMiscellaneous Technical (U+2300–U+23FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version7.0 (2014)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+23F9 (⏹) is BLACK SQUARE FOR STOP, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Technical block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 7.0 (2014).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “stop button”, in the Symbols group, subgroup av-symbol. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+23F9 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ⏹

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 8F B93 bytes
UTF-1623F91 code unit
UTF-32000023F94 bytes
HTML decimal⏹
HTML hex⏹
CSS\23F9in content: "…"
JavaScript\u23F9
JSON\u23F9
Python\u23F9
Python\N{BLACK SQUARE FOR STOP}by name
Java / C#\u23F9
C / C++\u23F9universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{23F9}
Go\u23F9
Ruby\u23F9
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9209)
URL-encoded%E2%8F%B9percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Technical

All in block →
U+23F3⏳Hourglass Not Done U+23F4⏴Black Medium Left-Pointing Triangle U+23F5⏵Black Medium Right-Pointing Triangle U+23F6⏶Black Medium Up-Pointing Triangle U+23F7⏷Black Medium Down-Pointing Triangle U+23F8⏸Double Vertical Bar U+23FA⏺Black Circle for Record U+23FB⏻Power Symbol U+23FC⏼Power On-Off Symbol U+23FD⏽Power on Symbol U+23FE⏾Power Sleep Symbol U+23FF⏿Observer Eye Symbol