Technical information

Symbol
NameWhite medium square
Unicode numberU+25FB
CategorySquares
DescriptionThe Unicode character ◻, or U+25FB, is known as the "White Medium Square". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a medium-sized white or hollow square. It can be used in digital communications to create various designs, patterns, or visual representations of data. It might also be used to represent concepts such as checkboxes, buttons, or toggles in user interfaces. 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)◻
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%97%BB
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x97 0xBB
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010111:10111011
UTF-160x25FB
UTF-320x000025FB

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25FB"
CSS Code\25FB
JavaScript"\u25FB"
Perl\x{25FB}
Python 2u"\u25FB"
Python 3\u25FB
Ruby\u{25FB}

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
300
400
500
600
700
800
900

HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9723;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25FB";
}

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