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Black Medium Square Emoji ◼️

A solid black square sitting at the mid rung of Unicode's four-size ladder of black and white squares. It's one of four on this shelf that render as flat monochrome text unless a hidden variation selector switches them into color, and in practice it turns up as a spacer between clauses, a habit borrowed from Japanese web layout.

What ◼️ means

A black square, similar to the ⬛ Black Large Square, but a one size smaller. The ◼️ Black Medium Square emoji is a variant of the black-square emojis. It represents a medium sized square and the capacity of the given area.

How and when to use it

If you're referring to something that's black, but less intense or containing less color, use ◼️. For example, "I used 4H shading the center ◼️ ✏️" or "I don't think we'll need a lot of black in the logo ◼️".
Since ◼️ is part of the ascending or descending series of the black squares, it signifies somewhere in the middle. Hence, while applying this "middle" in any context, feel fear to use ◼️
Some instances for the previous point are - "You just started work. Wait, until you're ready for the next level ◼️", "It always felt like I was stuck at the middle with him ◼️ We never moved past it".
If you're sharing content; textual or visual, where black occupies prominence, but the subject is medium-sized, ◼️ could be part of the caption - it could be a pair of black ear studs, a black-studded ring, fashion statements, piercings, etc.

Other Names

◼️ Medium Black Square
◼️ Black Square
◼️ Smaller Black Square
◼️ Medium Black Cube
◼️ Medium Black Patch
◼️ Four-Sided Medium Black Solid

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › geometric
Codepoints: U+25FC U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :black_medium_square: GitHub
Keywords: black, geometric, medium, square

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.