What ⬣ means
is the upright black counterpart; is the outlined horizontal form.
A 2008 Unicode math chart pairs ⬣ with as the filled and outlined horizontal hexagons, and with as their upright counterparts.
A 2004 Unicode proposal reviewing symbols from fonts used to set mathematics describes ⬣ as a horizontal filled hexagon. A 2011 Unicode proposal to encode Wingdings and Webdings maps a Wingdings glyph to ⬣ as a centered black hexagon.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Software-Function Symbol
Unicode’s mathematical shape grouping treats ⎔ as the outlined horizontal counterpart to filled ⬣.
Black Hexagon
This is the upright black hexagon grouped with horizontal ⬣ in Unicode’s mathematical shape chart.
White Hexagon
This is the outlined upright counterpart to black ⬢; ⬣ is the filled horizontal form.
Combination ideas
3A hex nut seen from above
A row of flat-topped hexagons as a bold divider
The same filled hexagon, lying flat and standing up
Questions people ask
1Why does ⬣ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ⬣
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How to type or find ⬣
- Search it as
- filled hexagon glyph · wide hexagon symbol · hexagon text marker
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⬣CSS
\2B23Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⬣
HTML hex
⬣
CSS content
content: "\2B23";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AC%A3
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.