White Medium Square

Mediano cuadrado blanco

= always (modal operator) → 25A1 □  white square → 27E4 ⟤  white square with leftwards tick ⁓ 25FB FE0E  text style ⁓ 25FB FE0F  emoji style

A white square on a crossword is a "light". Similar emoji: 🔳

Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
2. The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	604 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:white_medium_square:
Keywords

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Geometric Shapes
Unicode Range	25A0–25FF
Unicode Subcategory	Geometric Shapes

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory	Geometric Shapes
Names & Annotations	WHITE MEDIUM SQUARE Temporary Notes: Large square (orange)
Symbol Information	◻ U+25FB unified (Unicode 3.2)
Proposal Identifier	e-B71

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	■
KDDI	#21 大四角１ U+E538 SJIS-F754 JIS-7735
Softbank	#464 #old207 ボタン３ 「botan３」 U+E21B SJIS-F7BB

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 5 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	◻
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	◻
Decimal HTML Entity	◻
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	◻
Hex Code Point(s)	25fb
Formal Unicode Notation	U+25FB
Decimal Code Point(s)	9723
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x97 0xBB
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 97 BB
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 227 273
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x25FB
UTF-16 Hex	25fb
UTF-16 Dec	9723
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x000025FB
UTF-32 Hex	25FB
UTF-32 Dec	9723
Python Src	u"\u25FB"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x97\xbb"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u25FB"

Emoji Code Version	iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	◻️
UTF-8 Character Count	2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	◻️
Decimal HTML Entity	◻ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	◻ ️
Hex Code Point(s)	25fb, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation	U+25FB, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)	9723, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x97 0xBB, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 97 BB, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 227 273, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x25FB, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex	25fb, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec	9723, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x000025FB 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex	25FB, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec	9723, 65039
Python Src	u"\u25FB\uFE0F"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x97\xbb\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u25FB\uFE0F"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)