Symbols · Emoji 0.6
🔳White Square Button Emoji
Generally, the white square emoji means ‘nothing’ or ‘empty.’ It’s often used to show something is missing or there’s a blank space.
The white square emoji, 🔳, is pretty straightforward.
- Unicode
- U+1F533
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :white_
square_ button: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔳 White Square Button emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
White Square Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the white square button as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
White Square Button emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :white_square_button:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F533.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔳 White Square Button emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F533 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
White Square Button emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the white square button as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
White Square Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around white 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
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🔳 vs 🔲 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: White Square Button
Code: U+1F533 · added 2010
Shortcode: :white_square_button:
Generally, the white square emoji means ‘nothing’ or ‘empty.’
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.”
11 — History
Where the 🔳 White 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+1F533 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 E21B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
White Square Button was approved as U+1F533 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.
12 — FAQ