U+2752 "❒" Upper Right Shadowed White Square Unicode Character

U+2752 "❒" Upper Right Shadowed White Square is a typographic symbol that depicts a hollow square with a shaded or shadowed effect emanating from its upper right corner, creating a subtle three dimensional appearance. It belongs to the Dingbats block and is often used in visual formatting to represent an unmarked checkbox, a placeholder, or an empty option in lists and forms, though its primary function is decorative rather than functional. This character provides a stylistic alternative to plain squares in digital text, commonly appearing in documents, user interfaces, and printed materials where a shaded aesthetic is desired.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2752
Version Added	1.1
Name	Upper Right 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 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2752
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002752
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2752

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