Red square Emoji

Symbols

A bold, solid red square with sharp corners. It is a simple geometric shape that stands out clearly against any background, often used to grab attention or represent a stop signal.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent the color red, a stop button, or a warning. In sports, it serves as an shorthand for being sent off the field, similar to showing a 🟥 red card. It is also used as a visual block in social media posts to create headers or dividers, often alongside the 🟦 blue square or 🟨 yellow square.

History

Added in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0, the red square was introduced alongside a full set of colored squares to provide users with basic building blocks for grid-based art and color-coded communication in digital chats, which had previously relied on complex text formatting.

Details

Glyph

🟥

Unicode

U+1F7E5

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f7e5:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDFE5;

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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