U+25FB White Medium Square

U+25FB was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block U+25A0 to U+25FF Geometric Shapes in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as always (modal operator).

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+25FB forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The CLDR project calls this character “white medium square” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: geometric, medium, square, white.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ◻️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.