Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack medium small square
Unicode numberU+25FE
CategorySquares
DescriptionThe Unicode character ◾, or U+25FE, is known as the "Black Medium 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 filled black square that's smaller than a standard square but larger than a small square. It's typically used as a bullet point, a graphical indicator, or a decorative symbol. Its usage can vary depending on the context, such as in written text, user interfaces, or in mathematical notation.

Encoding

HTML Entity◾
HTML Entity (hex)◾
URL Escape Code%E2%97%BE
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x97 0xBE
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010111:10111110
UTF-160x25FE
UTF-320x000025FE

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25FE"
CSS Code\25FE
JavaScript"\u25FE"
Perl\x{25FE}
Python 2u"\u25FE"
Python 3\u25FE
Ruby\u{25FE}

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

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9726;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25FE";
}

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