= always (modal operator) → 25A1 □ white square → 27E4 ⟤ white square with leftwards tick ⁓ 25FB FE0E text style ⁓ 25FB FE0F emoji style
Information
The white medium square is the minimalist tile of emoji land: clean, quiet, and perfect for when you want to say… absolutely nothing, but aesthetically. On Apple/iOS, it shows up as a crisp white square with softly rounded corners and a thin light-gray outline—no shadow, no gloss, just that smooth, flat design language you’d expect from Cupertino. It’s smaller than the “large” version, which makes it great for building tidy little grids or spacing out text with designer energy. Think of it as the emoji equivalent of a blank canvas, a fresh spreadsheet cell, or an empty app icon waiting for chaos.
People drop this square to make pixel-art mosaics, mock up checkboxes (unchecked, obviously), or carve neat dividers in captions and bios. It’s also a go-to for “my brain is blank” moments, sarcastic hot takes (“here’s what I think: ⬜”), and spoiler masks when you want to hide a word or two without going full blackout. Paired with black squares, it becomes instant chessboard vibes; sprinkled in a feed, it’s that minimalist, sterile, IKEA-instruction-manual chic. Designers use it as a tiny placeholder block in UI talk, while meme-makers treat it like a neutral reaction—calm, unbothered, giving nothing, serving everything.
Definition
A white square on a crossword is a "light". Similar emoji: 🔳
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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)
709 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_square:
Keywords
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 SQUARE Temporary Notes: Large square (orange)
Symbol Information
◻ U+25FB unified (Unicode 3.2)
Proposal Identifier
e-B71
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
■
KDDI
#21 大四角１ U+E538 SJIS-F754 JIS-7735
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)
25fb
Formal Unicode Notation
U+25FB
Decimal Code Point(s)
9723
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x97 0xBB
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 97 BB
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 227 273
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x25FB
UTF-16 Hex
25fb
UTF-16 Dec
9723
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000025FB
UTF-32 Hex
25FB
UTF-32 Dec
9723
Python Src
u"\u25FB"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x97\xbb"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u25FB"
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)
25fb, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+25FB, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9723, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x97 0xBB, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 97 BB, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 227 273, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x25FB, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
25fb, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9723, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000025FB 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
25FB, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9723, 65039
Python Src
u"\u25FB\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x97\xbb\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u25FB\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
