What does 🟪 Purple Square mean?
A solid purple square. Like its coloured siblings, it is a building block for pixel art, mosaics and visual progress bars, and a label for purple items in a colour-coded plan. People also reach for it to show love for anything purple: a team, a fandom colour, a twilight aesthetic. With no strong fixed meaning, it is mostly decorative and organisational.
🟪 Purple Square is an emoji from the Symbols category (geometric shapes), added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019.
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🟪 Purple Square on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Purple Square looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Purple Square 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 :large_purple_square:.
When was the Purple Square emoji added?
🟪 Purple Square was added in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. 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 Purple Square. The underlying code (U+1F7EA) 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.