U+25A1 WHITE SQUARE
U+25A1 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as quadrature and alchemical symbol for salt.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+25A1 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “hollow square” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: hollow square.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 9633 |
UTF-8 | E2 96 A1 |
UTF-16 | 25 A1 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 25 A1 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%96%A1 |
HTML-Escape | □ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â¡ |
HTML-Escape | □ |
HTML-Escape | □ |
HTML-Escape | □ |
alias | quadrature |
alias | alchemical symbol for salt |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A1 E0 |
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A2 A2 |
LATEX | \square |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni25A1 |
Adobe Glyph List | H22073 |
Adobe Glyph List | whitesquare |
digraph | OS |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
WHITE SQUARE | |
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Geometric Shapes | |
Other Symbol | |
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Any | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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Yes | |
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Other | |
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Other | |
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Ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
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