About Black Medium Square
Black Medium Square is the Unicode character ◼️ at codepoint U+25FC in the Geometric Shapes block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
| Unicode Codepoint | |
| Decimal | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | |
| UTF-16 (hex) | |
| HEX Entity | |
| CSS (\xxxx) | |
| JavaScript | |
| Python |
How to Use Black Medium Square
To use the Black Medium Square symbol (◼️) in HTML, insert the
entity ◼️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\25FC';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u25FC' evaluates to ◼️. In Python source, write '\u25FC'.
The character encodes to E2 97 BC as UTF-8 bytes and 25FC as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9724.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.