Symbols · Emoji 12.0
🟪Purple Square Emoji
Generally, the purple square emoji means "purple" or can be used to add a touch of luxury or elegance to a message. It’s often used simply to represent the color.
The purple square emoji, 🟪, is often used to represent royalty, luxury, and elegance.
- Unicode
- U+1F7EA
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :large_
purple_ square: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🟪 Purple Square emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Purple Square emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F7EA — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your purple square 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
Purple Square emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :large_purple_square:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the purple square, code point U+1F7EA.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🟪 Purple Square emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Purple Square emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the purple square 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
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Purple Square emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around purple square 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
Who sent the purple square and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
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: Purple Square
Code: U+1F7EA · added 2019
Shortcode: :large_purple_square:
Generally, the purple square emoji means "purple" or can be used to add a touch of luxury or elegance to a message.
Unicode name: Purple Circle
Code: U+1F7E3 · added 2019
Shortcode: :large_purple_circle:
Generally, the 🟣 emoji just means purple.
11 — History
Where the 🟪 Purple Square emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.0, the purple square has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1F7EA 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.
Purple Square was approved as U+1F7EA and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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