What does 🟥 Red Square mean?
A solid red square, famous as the red card in football. People hold it up in chats to “send off” someone for a terrible joke, a dirty trick or bad behaviour. It also builds pixel art, progress bars and colour-coded grids, where red usually means wrong, blocked or urgent. It joined the emoji set in 2019 along with squares in six other colours.
🟥 Red Square is an emoji from the Symbols category (geometric shapes), added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. People use it in messages about card and penalty.
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🟥 Red Square on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Red Square looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Red 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_red_square:.
When was the Red Square emoji added?
🟥 Red 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 Red Square. The underlying code (U+1F7E5) 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.