What ⯂ means
As of 2026-09-05, no standard chat meaning is documented. When a message contains this black pentagon symbol, treat it as a visual marker unless nearby words explain its role.
A 2012 Unicode working document groups ⯂ under the heading Centered geometric shapes. A Wingdings 2 mapping links a font character to this pentagon symbol; that is an encoding connection, not a shared message meaning.
Pentagon font support varies: fonts may draw its outline with slightly different proportions, and a font without ⯂ may show a blank box.
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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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How to type or find ⯂
- Search it as
- pentagon symbol · black pentagon · turned pentagon · Wingdings 2 symbol · Pentagon font support
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⯂\2BC2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.