What ❐ means
It is a typographic ornament; context gives it a role. Its white square has an upper-right shadow. The Unicode Dingbats repertoire largely derives from ITC Zapf Dingbats 100, a typeface set of printer’s ornaments.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
3
Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Unchecked task in a plain-text list.
From to-do to done.
Square mark introducing a section.
Questions people ask
2Is ❐ an emoji?
No. As of 2026-10-08, Unicode classifies it as a text dingbat, not an emoji.
Why does ❐ look different across devices?
Fonts draw its outline and shadow; a font without the glyph may show a replacement box.
More like this
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Collections with ❐
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How to type or find ❐
- Search it as
- shadow square · square ornament · dingbat · Zapf Dingbats
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
❐CSS
\2750Symbol picker
Search by its Unicode name or U2750 if your picker supports name or code-point search.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
❐
HTML hex
❐
CSS content
content: "\2750";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9D%90
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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.