Green square Emoji

Symbols

A vibrant, solid green square featuring sharp corners and a flat color fill. It functions as a large, bold block of color that stands out against white or dark background interfaces.

Usage Context

Used to represent the color green, nature, progress bars, or the concept of 'go' or 'success'. It is frequently used in word games like Wordle to indicate a correct letter placement, or paired with other colored squares like 🟥 or 🟦 to create patterns, grids, or colorful headers in text blocks.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2019, this emoji was introduced to provide a full set of primary and secondary colored shapes. It draws lineage from early computer terminal block characters used to create crude pixel art or borders before the age of high-resolution graphics.

Details

Glyph

🟩

Unicode

U+1F7E9

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f7e9:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDFE9;

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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