Yellow square Emoji

Symbols

A flat, vibrant yellow square with rounded edges. It acts as a primary geometric shape used for color-coding, highlighting text, or representing a solid block of color.

Usage Context

Frequently used in sports contexts to signify a caution or penalty, mirroring the physical cards shown by referees. Beyond sports, it is often deployed to add a splash of color to messages or to draw attention to specific lines of text. It is frequently paired with other colors like 🟥 or 🟦 to create patterns or emphasize importance.

History

Added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019, this emoji was part of a larger push to include a full spectrum of colored geometric shapes. These were designed to provide users with a flexible set of tools for labeling content or creating visual indicators in apps that lack custom tagging features.

Details

Glyph

🟨

Unicode

U+1F7E8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f7e8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDFE8;

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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