U+25AB "▫" White Small Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+25AB "▫" White Small Square is a typographic symbol that represents a small, unfilled square, often used in digital text for bullet lists, placeholders, or geometric decorations. Belonging to the Geometric Shapes block, it is slightly smaller than its counterpart U+25A1 (White Square) and is distinct from filled squares like U+25AA (Black Small Square). In plain text environments, it functions as a neutral, uncolored marker, and is commonly employed in formatting outlines, checklists without check marks, or as a simple visual separator in documents or user interfaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+25AB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x25AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000025AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u25ab |