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U+25A0 · BLACK SQUARE

Black Square

  • CodepointU+25A0
  • NameBLACK SQUARE
  • Decimal9632
  • BlockGeometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+25A0 (■) is BLACK SQUARE, a symbol in the Geometric Shapes block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ■

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 96 A03 bytes
UTF-1625A01 code unit
UTF-32000025A04 bytes
HTML decimal■
HTML hex■
CSS\25A0in content: "…"
JavaScript\u25A0
JSON\u25A0
Python\u25A0
Python\N{BLACK SQUARE}by name
Java / C#\u25A0
C / C++\u25A0universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25A0}
Go\u25A0
Ruby\u25A0
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9632)
URL-encoded%E2%96%A0percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+220E∎End of Proof U+2588█Full Block
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Characters built on ■

U+FFED￭Halfwidth Black Square
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
U+25A1□White Square U+25A2▢White Square with Rounded Corners U+25A3▣White Square Containing Black Small Square U+25A4▤Square with Horizontal Fill U+25A5▥Square with Vertical Fill U+25A6▦Square with Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill