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U+FFED · HALFWIDTH BLACK SQUARE

Halfwidth Black Square

  • CodepointU+FFED
  • NameHALFWIDTH BLACK SQUARE
  • Decimal65517
  • BlockHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthH — Halfwidth
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FFED (￭) is HALFWIDTH BLACK SQUARE, a symbol in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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).

It is a halfwidth form of U+25A0 ■ (compatibility decomposition <narrow>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+25A0 ■. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ￭

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF BF AD3 bytes
UTF-16FFED1 code unit
UTF-320000FFED4 bytes
HTML decimal&#65517;
HTML hex&#xFFED;
CSS\FFEDin content: "…"
JavaScript\uFFED
JSON\uFFED
Python\uFFED
Python\N{HALFWIDTH BLACK SQUARE}by name
Java / C#\uFFED
C / C++\uFFEDuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FFED}
Go\uFFED
Ruby\uFFED
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65517)
URL-encoded%EF%BF%ADpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+25A0 ■
NFKDU+25A0 ■
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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+25AA▪Black Small Square
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Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

All in block →
U+FFE8￨Halfwidth Forms Light Vertical U+FFE9￩Halfwidth Leftwards Arrow U+FFEA￪Halfwidth Upwards Arrow U+FFEB￫Halfwidth Rightwards Arrow U+FFEC￬Halfwidth Downwards Arrow U+FFEE￮Halfwidth White Circle