U+274F "❏" Lower Right Drop-Shadowed White Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+274F "❏" Lower Right Drop-Shadowed White Square is a typographic glyph that depicts a white square with a dark shadow effect cast specifically to its lower right side, giving it a subtle three-dimensional appearance on a flat surface. This symbol belongs to the Dingbats block within the Unicode standard and is often used in decorative text, user interfaces, or checklists to represent a non-selected or empty state, similar to an unchecked box. Its design creates a visual illusion of depth, making it useful for emphasizing boundaries or adding stylistic flair to digital and printed documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+274F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Lower Right Drop-Shadowed White Square |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ❏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ❏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9D 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x274F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000274F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u274f |
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 |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |