Symbols · Emoji 0.6
◻️White Medium Square Emoji
Generally, it means “nothing” or “empty.” People use it to show something is missing or there’s no answer.
The ◻️ emoji is a white square, often a medium-sized one.
- Unicode
- U+25FB U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :white_
medium_ square: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ◻️ White Medium Square emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
White Medium Square emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the white medium square 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 Medium Square emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :white_medium_square:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the white medium square, code point U+25FB.
04 — How to type
How to type the ◻️ White Medium Square emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
White Medium Square emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the white medium 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 Medium Square emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around white medium 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
Chat apps do not change U+25FB, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
◻️ vs ⚪️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: White Medium Square
Code: U+25FB U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :white_medium_square:
Generally, it means “nothing” or “empty.”
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 Medium 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 E538.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
White Medium Square was approved as U+25FB 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