U+25A3 "▣" White Square Containing Black Small Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+25A3 "▣" White Square Containing Black Small Square is a geometric symbol that features a large white square framing a smaller black square at its center, creating a distinct nested or target-like appearance. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats block, where it is often used in visual design, user interfaces, or diagrammatic contexts to denote containment, validation, or a state of being selected or filled. Unlike simpler square symbols, this character combines both outline and fill elements in a single glyph, making it useful for representing a checkbox that is partially or fully completed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+25A3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White Square Containing Black Small Square |
| Block | Geometric Shapes |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ▣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ▣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x96 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x25A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000025A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u25a3 |