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U+25AA · BLACK SMALL SQUARE

Black Small Square

  • CodepointU+25AA
  • NameBLACK SMALL SQUARE
  • Emoji nameblack small square
  • Decimal9642
  • 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 widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+25AA (▪) is 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 emoji name (CLDR short name) is “black small square”, in the Symbols group, subgroup geometric. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+25AA 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 96 AA3 bytes
UTF-1625AA1 code unit
UTF-32000025AA4 bytes
HTML named▪named character reference
HTML named▪named character reference
HTML named▪named character reference
HTML decimal▪
HTML hex▪
CSS\25AAin content: "…"
JavaScript\u25AA
JSON\u25AA
Python\u25AA
Python\N{BLACK SMALL SQUARE}by name
Java / C#\u25AA
C / C++\u25AAuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25AA}
Go\u25AA
Ruby\u25AA
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9642)
URL-encoded%E2%96%AApercent-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+FFED￭Halfwidth Black Square
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
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 U+25AB▫White Small Square U+25AC▬Black Rectangle U+25AD▭White Rectangle U+25AE▮Black Vertical Rectangle U+25AF▯White Vertical Rectangle U+25B0▰Black Parallelogram