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U+25AB · WHITE SMALL SQUARE

White Small Square

  • CodepointU+25AB
  • NameWHITE SMALL SQUARE
  • Emoji namewhite small square
  • Decimal9643
  • 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+25AB (▫) is WHITE 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 “white 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+25AB 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 AB3 bytes
UTF-1625AB1 code unit
UTF-32000025AB4 bytes
HTML named▫named character reference
HTML decimal▫
HTML hex▫
CSS\25ABin content: "…"
JavaScript\u25AB
JSON\u25AB
Python\u25AB
Python\N{WHITE SMALL SQUARE}by name
Java / C#\u25AB
C / C++\u25ABuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25AB}
Go\u25AB
Ruby\u25AB
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9643)
URL-encoded%E2%96%ABpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
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+25AA▪Black Small Square U+25AC▬Black Rectangle U+25AD▭White Rectangle U+25AE▮Black Vertical Rectangle U+25AF▯White Vertical Rectangle U+25B0▰Black Parallelogram U+25B1▱White Parallelogram