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Technical information
| Symbol | ▣ | |
| Name | White square containing black small square | |
| Unicode number | U+25A3 | |
| Category | Squares | |
| Description | The Unicode character ▣, or U+25A3, is known as "White Square Containing Black Small Square". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character appears as a larger square with a solid black smaller square centered within it. It is frequently used in various contexts, such as in diagrams, charts, and designs, or to denote a specific state in check boxes or selection controls. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ▣ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ▣ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%96%A3 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x96 0xA3 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010110:10100011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x25A3 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000025A3 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u25A3" | |
| CSS Code | \25A3 | |
| JavaScript | "\u25A3" | |
| Perl | \x{25A3} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u25A3" | |
| Python 3 | \u25A3 | |
| Ruby | \u{25A3} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ▣ in sentence and in bold like this ▣ and in italic like this ▣.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>▣</span>
span {
content: "\25A3";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana