Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack medium square
Unicode numberU+25FC
CategorySquares
DescriptionThe Unicode character ◼, or U+25FC, is known as "Black Medium Square". It is part of the "Geometric Shapes" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. As the name suggests, this character represents a medium-sized square filled in black. This symbol can be used in a variety of ways, including as a graphical element in textual context, for marking or bulleting in lists, or representing a selected checkbox in interfaces.

Encoding

HTML Entity◼
HTML Entity (hex)◼
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%97%BC
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x97 0xBC
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010111:10111100
UTF-160x25FC
UTF-320x000025FC

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25FC"
CSS Code\25FC
JavaScript"\u25FC"
Perl\x{25FC}
Python 2u"\u25FC"
Python 3\u25FC
Ruby\u{25FC}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ◼ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

100
200
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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9724;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25FC";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References