U+1F78E "🞎" Light White Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🞎
U+1F78E "🞎" Light White Square is a geometric symbol belonging to the Unicode 9.0 standard, released in 2016, within the Geometric Shapes Extended block. It is designed as a hollow, unfilled square with thin outlines, distinct from solid squares or heavier bordered variants, and is intended for use in digital typesetting, mapping diagrams, or as a placeholder in text based interfaces where a subtle, neutral shape is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F78E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Light White 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 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F78E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf8e |
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 |