What does 🔳 White Square Button mean?
An outlined square button with a light centre, like an empty checkbox or a key on a keypad. It is used for unticked options, blank fields, frames around text, or simply as geometric decoration. Some use it to represent a screen, window or photo frame. Next to its darker companion 🔲, it helps build simple mock-ups of layouts and forms.
🔳 White Square Button is an emoji from the Symbols category (geometric shapes), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. People use it in messages about geometric and outlined.
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🔳 White Square Button on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how White Square Button looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the White 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 :white_square_button:.
When was the White Square Button emoji added?
🔳 White 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 White Square Button. The underlying code (U+1F533) 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.