Black Square

Group: Geometric shapes

Keywords

geometric

About this character

Black Square belongs to the Geometric shapes group and is encoded at U+25A0. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+25A0
Hex: 25A0
Decimal: 9632
HTML: ■
CSS: \25A0
JavaScript: \u25A0
Python: \u25A0
UTF-8: E2 96 A0

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

White Square U+25A1 Similar
White Square With Rounded Corners U+25A2 Similar
White Square Containing Black Small Square U+25A3 Similar
Square With Horizontal Fill U+25A4 Similar
Square With Vertical Fill U+25A5 Similar
Square With Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill U+25A6 Similar
Square With Upper Left To Lower Right Fill U+25A7 Similar
Square With Upper Right To Lower Left Fill U+25A8 Similar
Square With Diagonal Crosshatch Fill U+25A9 Similar
Black Small Square U+25AA Similar
White Small Square U+25AB Similar
Black Rectangle U+25AC Similar
White Rectangle U+25AD Similar
Black Vertical Rectangle U+25AE Similar
White Vertical Rectangle U+25AF Similar
Black Parallelogram U+25B0 Similar
White Parallelogram U+25B1 Similar
Black Up-Pointing Triangle U+25B2 Similar
White Up-Pointing Triangle U+25B3 Similar
Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B4 Similar
White Up-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B5 Similar
Black Right-Pointing Triangle U+25B6 Similar
White Right-Pointing Triangle U+25B7 Similar
Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B8 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.