Brown square Emoji

Symbols

A solid, medium-brown square. It is a bold, flat color block used to represent the color brown or to create patterns in text-based messages.

Usage Context

This emoji serves as a building block for digital mosaics or as a way to reference earth tones, wood, or chocolate. Users often stack it alongside other geometric shapes like 🟥 or 🟦 to create custom visual dividers or grid-based patterns in chat.

History

Added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019, this square was part of a larger set of colored shapes designed to provide a more robust palette for emoji-based design after users spent years hacking together custom color layouts using older, less consistent character sets.

Details

Glyph

🟫

Unicode

U+1F7EB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f7eb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDFEB;

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