White small square Emoji

Symbols

A hollow, thin-lined square that looks like a basic geometric shape. It is smaller than the standard full-block white square and stands out as a crisp, outline-style icon.

Usage Context

Frequently used as a bullet point in lists, a separator for text, or to build simple patterns. It is often swapped with ▪ to highlight contrast or to denote an empty checkbox state in a digital format.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this shape was added as part of a broad expansion of geometric symbols meant to help developers create custom UI elements and decorative text structures without relying on heavy image assets.

Details

Glyph

▫

Unicode

U+25AB

Shortcode

:emoji_u25ab:

HTML Entity

▫

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Symbols

Subcategory geometric

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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