What ▦ means
It shows a square patterned with crossing lines. In a message, start with the pattern; the surrounding words tell you what, if anything, the sender means beyond its shape.
Why does ▦ look different?
Fonts may draw its reference shape differently. Unicode's reference chart is a guide, not a required drawing; fonts can change the spacing and proportions of the lines.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
2
Related characters
6
Square With Horizontal Fill
Unicode groups it with the square-fill symbols; ▤ uses horizontal lines, while ▦ has lines crossing at right angles.
Square With Vertical Fill
It belongs to the same square-fill set, but ▥ uses vertical lines instead of the crossing horizontal and vertical lines in ▦.
Square With Upper Left To Lower Right Fill
A diagonal-fill square in the same Unicode sequence; its hatch runs from upper left to lower right.
Square With Upper Right To Lower Left Fill
A diagonal-fill square in the same Unicode sequence; its hatch runs from upper right to lower left.
Square With Diagonal Crosshatch Fill
A crosshatched square in the same Unicode sequence, but its lines cross diagonally rather than at right angles.
Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill
The same right-angle crosshatch filling the whole text cell, with no square frame.
Combination ideas
2Row of gridded windows or a waffle pattern.
Horizontal plus vertical lines make the crosshatch.
Questions people ask
1Does ▦ always look like a 44 grid?
No. A 44 look is one font's rendering; other fonts may change the spacing or proportions of its lines.
More like this
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■Black Square
□White Square
▣White Square Containing Black Small Square
◼️Black Medium SquareOrthogonal Crosshatch Fill
▤Square With Horizontal Fill
▥Square With Vertical Fill
▧Square With Upper Left To Lower Right Fill
▩Square With Diagonal Crosshatch Fill
▨Square With Upper Right To Lower Left Fill
◍Circle With Vertical Fill
¦Broken Bar
°Degree SignCollections with ▦
3
How to type or find ▦
- Search it as
- crosshatch symbol · grid symbol · 4×4 grid · crosshatched square
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
▦CSS
\25A6Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
▦
HTML hex
▦
CSS content
content: "\25A6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%96%A6
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.