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Light White Square

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To enter 🞎, use a Unicode-aware picker, its HTML character reference, or its CSS escape. It is a thin square symbol for text and layouts when a light outline matters. Unicode groups it in an outline-weight series with roots in the Webdings and Wingdings symbol fonts.

Text symbol

What 🞎 means

Use a Unicode-aware picker, HTML reference, or CSS escape.

Search for Light White Square or U+1F78E in a Unicode-aware picker. In HTML, use 🞎; in a CSS string or pseudo-element, use \1F78E.

What does this square mean?

It is a thin square outline with a light border.

“Light” describes the border’s line weight. Unicode groups 🞎 with the ordinary white square, , and five other white-square variants; their names mark the progression from light to heavier outlines. Use this one when that lighter edge is the design you need.

Unicode identifies these extended geometric shapes as originating in Webdings and Wingdings collections. The original Wingdings fonts appeared with Windows 3.1 in 1992; Webdings was designed in 1997. A 2011 Unicode proposal argued that standard character assignments would make such symbols searchable and interoperable across systems.

Why does it render differently?

The font supplies the outline.

A font with 🞎 can show its thin border; fallback to another font can change the weight or show a missing-character box. If the weight must match across a document or interface, use a font that includes the character and check it in the viewing app.

A typographic shape choice: the thin outline is its main distinction.

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Don't confuse it with

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White Square
The ordinary white square is the baseline outline in the same family; 🞎 has a thinner border.
☐
Ballot Box
Use this ballot-box character for a box to mark; 🞎 specifies a lighter square outline.
⬜
White Large Square
⬜ is an emoji that shows as a solid white tile; 🞎 is a thin outline.

Combination ideas

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Questions people ask

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Why 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.

Collections with 🞎

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How to type or find 🞎

Search it as
thin square symbol · square outline character · Unicode square outline · Webdings · Wingdings · empty square symbol · U+1F78E
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1F78E, then AltX to get 🞎.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “light white square”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1f78e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🞎
CSS
\1F78E
Character picker
Search for Light White Square or U+1F78E in a Unicode-aware picker.
HTML
Use 🞎 in Unicode-aware HTML markup.
CSS
Use \1F78E in a CSS string or pseudo-element.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🞎
HTML hex
🞎
CSS content
content: "\1F78E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%9E%8E
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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