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U+25FC · BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE

Black Medium Square

  • CodepointU+25FC
  • NameBLACK MEDIUM SQUARE
  • Emoji nameblack medium square
  • Decimal9724
  • BlockGeometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySm — Math Symbol
  • Unicode version3.2 (2002)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+25FC (◼) is BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE, a mathematical 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 3.2 (2002).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “black medium 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+25FC 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 97 BC3 bytes
UTF-1625FC1 code unit
UTF-32000025FC4 bytes
HTML named◼named character reference
HTML decimal◼
HTML hex◼
CSS\25FCin content: "…"
JavaScript\u25FC
JSON\u25FC
Python\u25FC
Python\N{BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE}by name
Java / C#\u25FC
C / C++\u25FCuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25FC}
Go\u25FC
Ruby\u25FC
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9724)
URL-encoded%E2%97%BCpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
U+25F6◶White Circle with Lower Right Quadrant U+25F7◷White Circle with Upper Right Quadrant U+25F8◸Upper Left Triangle U+25F9◹Upper Right Triangle U+25FA◺Lower Left Triangle U+25FB◻White Medium Square U+25FD◽White Medium-Small Square U+25FE◾Black Medium-Small Square U+25FF◿Lower Right Triangle