U+25FE Black Medium Small Square

U+25FE 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 glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+25FE forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

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

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: ◾︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.