Black large square Emoji

Symbols

A solid, bold black square with sharp, crisp corners. It stands out as a heavy, dark block of color that serves as a fundamental geometric shape in digital communication.

Usage Context

Frequently used as a backdrop to add visual weight to text, as a placeholder for redacted content, or as a way to create simple bulleted lists. It is often used alongside its lighter counterpart ⬜ to create a high-contrast checkerboard pattern or to represent a checkbox that has been filled in.

History

Included in Unicode 5.1 in 2008, this shape stems from the early days of computer typesetting and dingbat fonts. These characters were initially mapped to provide standard geometric building blocks for simple graphical interfaces and text-based layouts before emoji became a universal language.

Details

Glyph

⬛

Unicode

U+2B1B

Shortcode

:emoji_u2b1b:

HTML Entity

⬛

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory geometric

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository