Symbols · Emoji 0.6
▫️White Small Square Emoji
Generally, the ▫️ emoji just means "point" or "highlight." It’s like a tiny marker to draw attention to something.
The ▫️ emoji is just a small, white square.
- Unicode
- U+25AB U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :white_
small_ square: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ▫️ White Small Square emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
White Small Square emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+25AB — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your white small 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
White Small Square 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 :white_small_square:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+25AB.
04 — How to type
How to type the ▫️ White Small Square emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
White Small Square emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the white small 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
06 — Combinations
White Small Square emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around white small 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What ▫️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the white small square lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
▫️ vs ⚪️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: White Small Square
Code: U+25AB U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :white_small_square:
Generally, the ▫️ emoji just means "point" or "highlight."
Unicode name: White Circle
Code: U+26AA U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :white_circle:
Generally, the ⚪️ emoji just means a white circle.
11 — History
Where the ▫️ White Small Square 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
▫️ existed there as
KDDI au E531.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
White Small Square was approved as U+25AB U+FE0F 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