What ⬢ means
Mostly as decoration, a bullet or a hexagon stand-in. In Unicode, "black" means filled and "white" means outline, so ⬢ is simply the filled hexagon among a set of geometric shapes for diagrams and typesetting.
In practice it marks list items, separates parts of a username or bio, and stands for anything hexagonal: a honeycomb cell, a nut or bolt head, a game board tile, a hexagonal logo. Some people string several together to suggest a honeycomb pattern.
Because it is a font character, it can look slightly different in size and weight from phone to phone, and an old device may show an empty box instead.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- Hexagons are everywhere in nature: bees build hexagonal honeycomb cells because the shape tiles a surface with no gaps while using little wax for the walls.
Questions people ask
2Is ⬢ an emoji?
No. It is a regular text symbol with no colour emoji version, so it takes the colour and style of the surrounding text.
Does ⬢ mean anything when someone sends it?
Not on its own. It is a shape used for decoration or as a bullet; read the words around it.
More like this
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Collections with ⬢
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How to type or find ⬢
- Also called
- filled hexagon · solid hexagon · hexagon symbol
- Search it as
- hexagon · six-sided shape · honeycomb · bullet
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⬢\2B22Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.