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U+2B1B · BLACK LARGE SQUARE

Black Large Square

  • CodepointU+2B1B
  • NameBLACK LARGE SQUARE
  • Emoji nameblack large square
  • Decimal11035
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (U+2B00–U+2BFF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version5.1 (2008)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2B1B (⬛) is BLACK LARGE SQUARE, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 5.1 (2008).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “black large square”, in the Symbols group, subgroup geometric. It displays as a colour emoji by default.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ⬛

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 AC 9B3 bytes
UTF-162B1B1 code unit
UTF-3200002B1B4 bytes
HTML decimal⬛
HTML hex⬛
CSS\2B1Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u2B1B
JSON\u2B1B
Python\u2B1B
Python\N{BLACK LARGE SQUARE}by name
Java / C#\u2B1B
C / C++\u2B1Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2B1B}
Go\u2B1B
Ruby\u2B1B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(11035)
URL-encoded%E2%AC%9Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows

All in block →
U+2B15⬕Square with Lower Left Diagonal Half Black U+2B16⬖Diamond with Left Half Black U+2B17⬗Diamond with Right Half Black U+2B18⬘Diamond with Top Half Black U+2B19⬙Diamond with Bottom Half Black U+2B1A⬚Dotted Square U+2B1C⬜White Large Square U+2B1D⬝Black Very Small Square U+2B1E⬞White Very Small Square U+2B1F⬟Black Pentagon U+2B20⬠White Pentagon U+2B21⬡White Hexagon