What ❒ means
❒ is the upper right shadowed white square. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Dingbats block; this site shelves it under Stars & signs.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
❒ is a single code point, U2752. In HTML that is ❒, and in CSS \2752.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Unchecked item in a plain-text list.
Task done.
Square bullets for a plain-text list.
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.
More like this
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Collections with ❒
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How to type or find ❒
- Search it as
- ❒ · dingbat · Zapf Dingbats · shadowed square · square dingbat
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
❒CSS
\2752Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
❒
HTML hex
❒
CSS content
content: "\2752";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9D%92
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.