Blue square Emoji

Symbols

A solid, bright blue square with sharp, distinct corners. It acts as a bold geometric block, often used to create color-coded text, emphasis, or dividers in digital messages.

Usage Context

Frequently used to represent the color blue, signify a team or sports identity, or function as a decorative bullet point. Users often stack them alongside 🟥 or 🟩 to build patterns or highlight specific sections of text for better readability.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, these simple geometric shapes were developed to give users a way to express color without relying on specific objects, filling a gap in early mobile messaging where color selection was otherwise limited.

Details

Glyph

🟦

Unicode

U+1F7E6

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f7e6:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDFE6;

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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