Black square

Meaning and uses

A solid square. It works as a block bullet, a filled checkbox or a minimal design element.

Unicode details

■ is the Unicode character named BLACK SQUARE, code point U+25A0, in the Geometric Shapes block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ■

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 25A0 and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ■.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “black square”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 25a0, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ■. In a CSS content property, use "\25A0".