Black Small Square is the Unicode character ▪️ at codepoint U+25AA in the Geometric Shapes block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Black Small Square
To use the Black Small Square symbol (▪️) in HTML, insert the
entity ▪️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\25AA';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u25AA' evaluates to ▪️. In Python source, write '\u25AA'.
The character encodes to E2 96 AA as UTF-8 bytes and 25AA as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9642.
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.