U+25AA "▪" Black Small Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+25AA "▪" Black Small Square is a geometric symbol that represents a small, solid black square, typically used in digital text for bullet points, list markers, or decorative formatting. It belongs to the Geometric Shapes block in Unicode and is often employed in user interfaces, documentation, and plain text to denote items in a list or to create visual separation. Its compact size and simple solid design make it a versatile and widely recognized glyph across different platforms and fonts, though its exact appearance may vary slightly depending on the typeface being used.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+25AA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | 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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x25AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000025AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u25aa |