What does 🔲 Black Square Button mean?
A square button with a darker, filled look, the companion of 🔳. It is used as a bold checkbox, a frame, a keypad key, or a placeholder in templates and to-do lists. Designers use it to sketch buttons and layouts in chat. Its meaning comes almost entirely from where it sits in a message, which makes it a flexible graphic tool.
🔲 Black Square Button is an emoji from the Symbols category (geometric shapes), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
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🔲 Black Square Button on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Black Square Button looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Black Square Button emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🔲 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :black_square_button:.
When was the Black Square Button emoji added?
🔲 Black Square Button was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🔲 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Black Square Button. The underlying code (U+1F532) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.