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 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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