Black square button Emoji

Symbols

A hollow, bold-lined square featuring a thick, black border. It stands out for its high contrast and rigid, blocky frame, making it look like a physical toggle or a button on a control panel.

Usage Context

This icon is frequently used to represent a stop action, a frame for text, or a way to highlight a specific item in a message. It is often paired with the solid ⬛ to signal a change in state or to create visual boundaries when organizing long lists.

History

Included in the Unicode 6.0 release in 2010, this button was designed to maintain parity with legacy Japanese mobile phone input sets. Its design stems from early screen-based control interfaces where buttons needed to be easily identifiable on low-resolution displays.

Details

Glyph

🔲

Unicode

U+1F532

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f532:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD32;

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.

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