What ▣ means
A small solid square inside a white square outline.
That describes the drawing, not an instruction. In a message, the surrounding words or the sender's explanation have to tell you why the mark appears.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
2
Related characters
4
White Square
□ is the white outer square on its own, without any inner center.
Black Small Square
▪ is a small black square on its own; ▣ places that kind of filled square inside a white outline.
White Square Containing Black Very Small Square
🞔 shares the same nested square layout, but its inner black center is very small compared to ▣'s small center.
White Square Containing Black Medium Square
🞕 shares the nested square layout as well, but its inner black center is medium-sized, larger than the center of ▣.
Combination ideas
3The marked option in a plain-text form.
Progress bar: three of five steps done.
Frames a heading or title as decoration.
More like this
76
□White Square
■Black Square
🔲Black Square Button
🔳White Square Button
◈White Diamond Containing Black Small Diamond
◘Inverse Bullet
▚Quadrant Upper Left And Lower Right
▞Quadrant Upper Right And Lower Left
▢White Square With Rounded Corners
▤Square With Horizontal Fill
▥Square With Vertical Fill
▦Square With Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill
▧Square With Upper Left To Lower Right Fill
▨Square With Upper Right To Lower Left Fill
▩Square With Diagonal Crosshatch Fill
◙Inverse White Circle
◧Square With Left Half Black
◨Square With Right Half Black
◩Square With Upper Left Diagonal Half Black
◪Square With Lower Right Diagonal Half Black
◫White Square With Vertical Bisecting Line
◰White Square With Upper Left Quadrant
◱White Square With Lower Left Quadrant
◲White Square With Lower Right Quadrant
◳White Square With Upper Right Quadrant
⛋White Diamond In Square
⛶Square Four Corners
❏Lower Right Drop-Shadowed White Square
❐Upper Right Drop-Shadowed White Square
❑Lower Right Shadowed White Square
❒Upper Right Shadowed White Square
⧄Squared Rising Diagonal Slash
⬒Square With Top Half Black
⬓Square With Bottom Half Black
⬔Square With Upper Right Diagonal Half Black
⬕Square With Lower Left Diagonal Half Black
⬚Dotted Square
⮺Overlapping White Squares
⮻Overlapping White And Black Squares
⮼Overlapping Black Squares
Box Drawings Light Vertical And Top Right
Box Drawings Light Vertical And Bottom Right
Box Drawings Light Vertical And Top Left
Box Drawings Light Vertical And Bottom Left
🖽Frame With Tiles
🙨Hollow Quilt Square Ornament
🙩Hollow Quilt Square Ornament In Black Square
🙪Solid Quilt Square Ornament
🞔White Square Containing Black Very Small Square
🞕White Square Containing Black Medium Square
🞖Square Target
🟗Circled Square
🬶Block Sextant-1456
🬺Block Sextant-13456
🭲Vertical One Eighth Block-4
🭽Left And Upper One Eighth Block
🭿Right And Lower One Eighth Block
🮂Upper One Quarter Block
🮃Upper Three Eighths Block
🮅Upper Three Quarters Block
🮆Upper Seven Eighths Block
🮇Right One Quarter Block
🮈Right Three Eighths Block
🮏Lower Half Medium Shade
🮐Inverse Medium Shade
🮔Left Half Inverse Medium Shade And Right Half Block
🮕Checker Board Fill
🮙Upper Right To Lower Left Fill
🮼Right Open Squared Dot
⎅White Square With Centre Vertical Line
⧈Squared Square
⧠Square With Contoured Outline
Heavy White Square Containing Black Very Small Square
◉Fisheye
¦Broken Bar
°Degree SignCollections with ▣
2
How to type or find ▣
- Search it as
- nested square symbol · square inside square
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
▣CSS
\25A3Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
▣
HTML hex
▣
CSS content
content: "\25A3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%96%A3
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.