→ 25A1 □ white square ⁓ 2B1C FE0E text style ⁓ 2B1C FE0F emoji style
Information
The white large square is the emoji equivalent of a fresh sheet of printer paper: crisp, clean, and begging to be turned into something—or nothing at all. People drop it in texts as a visual pause, a blank-thought moment, or a stylish spacer to line up posts and make checkerboard layouts with the black large square. It also plays the role of ironic silence (brain empty, vibes immaculate), a stand-in for “I forgot the attachment,” or a minimalist mood board tile. Culturally, it can nod to the Beatles’ famously bare-bones White Album, snow-day energy, or the aesthetic of clean UI mockups and moodboard grids.
On Apple/iOS, it appears as a bright white, front-facing square with softly rounded corners, a faint gray outline, and a barely-there drop shadow—basically an empty app icon crossed with a sticker. No gradient drama, no face, no fluff—just a smooth, flat tile that reads instantly as “blank space.” Pair it with the black large square for a chessboard joke, pixel-art patterns, or to create breathing room in chaotic chats. It’s also used sarcastically to say, “my thoughts exactly,” when your brain goes snow-white, or to deliver a deadpan, nothing-to-see-here punchline.
Definition
Just think of all the uses! Tiles, Boxes, pretty much anything square. Don't get me started.
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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)
1419 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_large_square:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Large White Square
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
Unicode Range
2B00–2BFF
Unicode Subcategory
Squares
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Names & Annotations
WHITE LARGE SQUARE Temporary Notes: Extra large square (orange). disunified from U+25A1 due to source separation rule (Shift_JIS).
Symbol Information
⬜ U+2B1C unified (Unicode 5.1)
Proposal Identifier
e-B6B
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
■
KDDI
#38 特大四角１ U+E548 SJIS-F764 JIS-7745
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)
2b1c
Formal Unicode Notation
U+2B1C
Decimal Code Point(s)
11036
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0xAC 0x9C
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 AC 9C
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 254 234
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x2B1C
UTF-16 Hex
2b1c
UTF-16 Dec
11036
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x00002B1C
UTF-32 Hex
2B1C
UTF-32 Dec
11036
Python Src
u"\u2B1C"
PHP Src
"\xe2\xac\x9c"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u2B1C"
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)
2b1c, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+2B1C, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
11036, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0xAC 0x9C, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 AC 9C, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 254 234, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x2B1C, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
2b1c, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
11036, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x00002B1C 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
2B1C, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
11036, 65039
Python Src
u"\u2B1C\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\xac\x9c\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u2B1C\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
