→ 25A0 ■ black square ⁓ 25FC FE0E text style ⁓ 25FC FE0F emoji style
Information
The black medium-small square is the tiny void you drop into a message when you want sleek punctuation with main-character energy. It works as an aesthetic divider, a minimalist bullet point, or a stackable building block for DIY progress bars and pixel-art moments. People use it to say “nothing to see here” or “emotion: redacted,” and it doubles as a cheeky stand-in for a heart of darkness, existential dread, or that one brain cell currently buffering.
On Apple devices, it shows up as a petite, deep-charcoal square with slightly rounded corners and a clean, flat finish—noticeably smaller than the big black square, but chunkier than the truly tiny one. It sits inline with text like a crisp little tile, and on dark-mode screenshots it can look deliciously stealthy (aka, it might nearly disappear—very ninja). Stack a few for neat grids, sprinkle them in captions for designer vibes, or use one as a tiny period when your sentence needs an ultra-serious mic drop.
Culturally, it channels everything from Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square” minimalism to the internet’s love of modular, Tetris-adjacent shapes. In meme-speak, it can be sarcastic (“my thoughts rn: ▪️”), dramatic (the void, but make it pocket-sized), or formatting-flirty when you’re styling bios, threads, and lyric posts. Clean, compact, and low-key iconic, it’s the pixel that says more by showing less.
Definition
Small squares, where are the large squares!?
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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)
690 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_small_square:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Black 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
BLACK MEDIUM SMALL SQUARE Temporary Notes: Medium square (green)
Symbol Information
◾ U+25FE unified (Unicode 3.2)
Proposal Identifier
e-B70
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
■
KDDI
#18 中四角２ U+E535 SJIS-F751 JIS-7732
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)
25fe
Formal Unicode Notation
U+25FE
Decimal Code Point(s)
9726
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x97 0xBE
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 97 BE
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 227 276
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x25FE
UTF-16 Hex
25fe
UTF-16 Dec
9726
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000025FE
UTF-32 Hex
25FE
UTF-32 Dec
9726
Python Src
u"\u25FE"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x97\xbe"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u25FE"
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)
25fe, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+25FE, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9726, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x97 0xBE, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 97 BE, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 227 276, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x25FE, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
25fe, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9726, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000025FE 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
25FE, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9726, 65039
Python Src
u"\u25FE\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x97\xbe\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u25FE\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
