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U+25A3 · WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE

White Square Containing Black Small Square

  • CodepointU+25A3
  • NameWHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE
  • Decimal9635
  • 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+25A3 (▣) is WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL 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 A33 bytes
UTF-1625A31 code unit
UTF-32000025A34 bytes
HTML decimal▣
HTML hex▣
CSS\25A3in content: "…"
JavaScript\u25A3
JSON\u25A3
Python\u25A3
Python\N{WHITE SQUARE CONTAINING BLACK SMALL SQUARE}by name
Java / C#\u25A3
C / C++\u25A3universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25A3}
Go\u25A3
Ruby\u25A3
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9635)
URL-encoded%E2%96%A3percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
U+25A0■Black Square U+25A1□White Square U+25A2▢White Square with Rounded Corners U+25A4▤Square with Horizontal Fill U+25A5▥Square with Vertical Fill U+25A6▦Square with Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill U+25A7▧Square with Upper Left to Lower Right Fill U+25A8▨Square with Upper Right to Lower Left Fill U+25A9▩Square with Diagonal Crosshatch Fill