U+25FE Black Medium Small Square

U+25FE was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (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. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+25FE behaves as Alphabetic 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 “black medium-small square” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: black medium-small square, geometric, 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.