Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🔲Black Square Button Emoji
Basically, it’s a quick way to say “yes,” “okay,” or “done.” People use it to signal they’ve understood something or that a process is complete in a chat.
The 🔲 emoji is a black square, often resembling a button.
- Unicode
- U+1F532
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :black_
square_ button: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔲 Black Square Button emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Black Square Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F532 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your black square button looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Black Square Button emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :black_square_button:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F532.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔲 Black Square Button emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F532 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Black Square Button emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Black Square Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around black square button for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🔲 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🔲 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the black square button lands changes how it is taken.
09 — Difference
🔲 vs 🐦⬛ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Black Square Button
Code: U+1F532 · added 2010
Shortcode: :black_square_button:
Basically, it’s a quick way to say “yes,” “okay,” or “done.”
Unicode name: Black Bird
Code: U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B · added 2022
Shortcode: :black_bird:
The 🐦⬛ emoji represents a black bird, typically a crow or raven.
10 — History
Where the 🔲 Black Square Button emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F532 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🔲 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E69C, KDDI au E54B, SoftBank E21A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Black Square Button was approved as U+1F532 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🔲 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
11 — FAQ