White medium square Emoji

Symbols

A hollow, medium-sized square with a thin border and a white center. Unlike the solid version of the square, this outline style suggests a frame or a placeholder space.

Usage Context

Frequently used as a bullet point in lists, a checkbox for tracking tasks, or a decorative separator between blocks of text. It is often paired with the black version ◼ to denote empty versus completed status or to provide contrast in layout design.

History

Adopted into the Unicode standard in 2008 as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block, this character was originally included to help computers render complex geometric shapes and technical diagrams before standard emoji sets were fully standardized across mobile platforms.

Details

Glyph

◻

Unicode

U+25FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u25fb:

HTML Entity

◻

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Symbols

Subcategory geometric

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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