Symbols · Emoji 0.6
◾️Black Medium-small Square Emoji
Generally, ◾️ just means a small, black square. It’s often used as a simple visual element and doesn't have a deep, specific meaning on its own.
The ◾️ emoji is a black medium-sized square.
- Unicode
- U+25FE U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :black_
medium_ small_ square: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ◾️ Black Medium-small Square emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
Black Medium-small Square emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+25FE. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Black Medium-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 :black_medium_small_square:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the black medium-small square, code point U+25FE.
04 — How to type
How to type the ◾️ Black Medium-small Square emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+25FE when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Black Medium-small Square emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the black medium-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
Black Medium-small Square emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around black medium-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
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
Chat apps do not change U+25FE, 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: Black Medium-small Square
Code: U+25FE U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :black_medium_small_square:
Generally, ◾️ just means a small, black square.
Unicode name: Black Circle
Code: U+26AB U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :black_circle:
Generally, ⚫️ means “nothing” or “void.”
11 — History
Where the ◾️ Black Medium-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 E535.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Black Medium-small Square was approved as U+25FE 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