→ 25AB ▫ white small square ⁓ 25FD FE0E text style ⁓ 25FD FE0F emoji style
Information
The white medium-small square is the internet’s blank sticky note: small, tidy, and great at saying “this spot is intentionally empty.” People drop it into chats to make minimalist checkboxes, build lo-fi progress bars, or carve neat little spacers in chaotic timelines. It doubles as a tiny buffer in meme layouts and ASCII art, and as a deadpan reply meaning: brain empty, no thoughts, vibes only. In sarcasm mode, one square = the amount of drama you care to give, i.e., none.
On Apple/iOS it appears as a crisp white rounded-corner square with a thin gray outline and a soft shadow, front-facing and perfectly centered—noticeably smaller than the regular white square but not microscopic. That petite size makes it ideal for pixel-art grids, retro UI mockups, and Wordle-adjacent scoreboards. Creators use it as a discreet separator in captions, bio layouts, and Discord message art when a normal space just doesn’t cut it. If minimalism had an emoji calling card, this tidy tile is it.
Definition
If I had a nickel for every medium small object...
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
763 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:white_medium_small_square:
Keywords
Previous Names:
White Medium Small Square
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Geometric Shapes
Unicode Range
25A0–25FF
Unicode Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Names & Annotations
WHITE MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE Temporary Notes: Medium square (orange)
Symbol Information
◽ U+25FD unified (Unicode 3.2)
Proposal Identifier
e-B6F
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
■
KDDI
#17 中四角１ U+E534 SJIS-F750 JIS-7731
Softbank
#464 #old207 ボタン３ 「botan３」 U+E21B SJIS-F7BB
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
◽
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
◽
Decimal HTML Entity
◽
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
◽
Hex Code Point(s)
25fd
Formal Unicode Notation
U+25FD
Decimal Code Point(s)
9725
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x97 0xBD
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 97 BD
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 227 275
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x25FD
UTF-16 Hex
25fd
UTF-16 Dec
9725
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000025FD
UTF-32 Hex
25FD
UTF-32 Dec
9725
Python Src
u"\u25FD"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x97\xbd"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u25FD"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
◽️
UTF-8 Character Count
2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
◽️
Decimal HTML Entity
◽ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
◽ ️
Hex Code Point(s)
25fd, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+25FD, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9725, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x97 0xBD, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 97 BD, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 227 275, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x25FD, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
25fd, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9725, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000025FD 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
25FD, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9725, 65039
Python Src
u"\u25FD\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x97\xbd\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u25FD\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
