U+1F790 "🞐" Bold White Square Unicode Character

U+1F790 "🞐" Bold White Square is a geometric symbol from the Unicode 7.0 standard’s Geometric Shapes Extended block, designed to represent a solid unfilled square with thicker, bolder strokes compared to the standard white square. It is often used in visual diagrams, typographic decorations, or as a placeholder in user interface designs where a distinct, weighty outline is required for emphasis or clarity. Because it is a white square with bold framing, it conveys a sense of void or empty container while standing out more prominently than its thinner counterparts, and it can be paired with other geometric symbols to create patterns, tiles, or board game representations in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F790
Version Added	7.0
Name	Bold 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 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF90
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F790
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf90

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