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White Small Square HTML entity ▫
▫ is the HTML entity for White Small Square ▫ (U+25AB). Copy ▫, ▫ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
▫- Code point
- U+25AB
- Unicode name
- WHITE SMALL SQUARE
- Block
- Geometric Shapes
- Category
- Other symbol (So)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ▫Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ▫Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ▫Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\25AB";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u25AB"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u25ab"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{WHITE SMALL SQUARE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%96%ABPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 96 AB3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 25AB1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
▫ writes U+25AB (White Small Square), a symbol from the Unicode Geometric Shapes block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. Box drawing and block characters only line up in a monospaced font, such as inside <pre> or <code>.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
This character also has an emoji form: ▫️ White Small Square. Add U+FE0F after it for the emoji style or U+FE0E for the text style.
More shapes and box drawing
▮Black Vertical Rectangle□White Square▱White Parallelogram▓Dark Shade△White Up-Pointing Triangle▒Medium Shade▴Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle░Light Shade
All shapes and box drawing · Every HTML entity · Encode or decode text
Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).