U+1F78D "🞍" Black Slightly Small Square Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F78D "🞍" Black Slightly Small Square is a typographic symbol belonging to the Geometric Shapes Extended block, designed as a solid black square that is noticeably smaller than the standard full block square (U+25A0). It is typically used in technical documentation, diagram labeling, or as a bullet point in lists where a compact, unobtrusive marker is needed. This character supports precise text alignment in tables or structured layouts, and it renders as a monochrome glyph across most Unicode compliant fonts, maintaining its simple geometric form without decorative details.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F78D
Version Added 7.0
Name Black Slightly Small Square
Block Geometric Shapes Extended
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 🞍
HTML Hex Encoding 🞍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x9E 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDF8D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F78D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udf8d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other