Shapes · UIU+25A0 · Geometric Shapes
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Black Square
U+25A0 · decimal 9632 · Geometric Shapes
Every way to write it
7 formsHTML entity
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A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.
HTML numeric
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The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.
CSS content
\25A0
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
JavaScript
\u25A0
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
Python
\u25A0
The escape for a Python string literal.
URL
%E2%96%A0
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
UTF-8 bytes
E2 96 A0
3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickermacOS
Control + Command + Space, then search black square
Windows
Character Map or Alt + 9632
Groups it belongs to
Characters near it
8Code pointU+25A0
EntityNamed
UTF-83 bytes
ASCIINo