→ 25AA ▪ black small square ⁓ 25FE FE0E text style ⁓ 25FE FE0F emoji style
Information
The black medium square is the internet’s tiny brick of nothingness—a sleek, solid block that screams minimalism, mystery, and “I’m done talking.” People drop it in captions or bios as a clean divider, build lo-fi progress bars like [■□□□], or stack a row for pixel-art vibes. It doubles as a dramatic period—end of sentence, end of story, fade to black. When the mood is “void” or “it’s giving blackout energy,” this little square delivers with silent, cinematic flair.
On Apple/iOS, it appears as a flat, charcoal-black square with softly rounded corners, no outline, and no glossy gradient—just a neat, medium-sized tile seen straight-on. It looks like a UI button that refuses to be clicked, instantly recognizable next to its white and large square cousins. In texting, it can read as sarcastic (the “square of disappointment”), flirt-adjacent (teasingly coy, as in: say less, just this), or artsy (hello, Malevich’s Black Square vibes). It also shows up as a stand-in bullet point, a chessboard dark tile reference, a censor-ish mosaic block, or a simple “all-black outfit” mood marker. Bonus meme use: spacing trick on social posts, IYKYK.
Definition
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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)
748 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
:black_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
BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE Temporary Notes: Large square (green)
Symbol Information
◼ U+25FC unified (Unicode 3.2)
Proposal Identifier
e-B72
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
■
KDDI
#22 大四角１ U+E539 SJIS-F755 JIS-7736
Softbank
#463 #old206 ボタン２ 「botan２」 U+E21A SJIS-F7BA
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)
25fc
Formal Unicode Notation
U+25FC
Decimal Code Point(s)
9724
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x97 0xBC
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 97 BC
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 227 274
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x25FC
UTF-16 Hex
25fc
UTF-16 Dec
9724
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000025FC
UTF-32 Hex
25FC
UTF-32 Dec
9724
Python Src
u"\u25FC"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x97\xbc"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u25FC"
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)
25fc, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+25FC, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9724, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x97 0xBC, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 97 BC, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 227 274, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x25FC, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
25fc, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9724, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000025FC 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
25FC, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9724, 65039
Python Src
u"\u25FC\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x97\xbc\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u25FC\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
