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 |