☑️

Check Box with Check Emoji ☑️

A checkbox with a heavy checkmark already ticked inside it, sometimes shown on a plain grey square, sometimes on blue. It marks something as done, approved, or confirmed, and shows up constantly in to-do-list posts, packing lists, and "here's what I finished today" recaps.

What ☑️ means

A grey checkbox with a heavy white checkmark. It is also shown with a blue background and a light-blue, grey, or white checkmark on some platforms.

The ☑️ Check Box With Check emoji generally suggests approval. Since this emoji is not a button, it may indicate ticking out boxes on paper or virtually and a larger interpretation of making choices.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing a poll, a virtual checklist, check-sheet, a survey, etc., ☑️ could be in the caption or any other textual format, for added clarity. For example, "Hey guys. This survey would take 5 mins of your time. Please tick the options you relate with the most ☑️".
You could also use ☑️ while referring to an OMR sheet or an examination that requires ticking the correct choices.
Speaking of choices, if the context of your conversation or the post/repost you're sharing surrounds 'choice', ☑️ may be useful. For instance, "Choices turn into magic ☑️" or "Your choices define your life ☑️. Be wise when you make 'em".
While sharing a post/repost that has a couple of instructions or pointers to follow for different reasons in the caption, ☑️ can precede each of them. Like,
"Criteria for the giveaway:
☑️ Follow this account
☑️ Like at least 10 posts
☑️ Repost at least 8 of them"
or
"Hello, folks! Make sure you follow my account for more content ☑️".

Other Names

☑️ Check Mark
☑️ Tick Mark
☑️ Ticking/Checking
☑️ Checkbox
☑️ Check Mark in a Box
☑️ Checkbox With Checkmark
☑️ Ballot Box With Check

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › other-symbol
Codepoints: U+2611 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :ballot_box_with_check: GitHub
Keywords: ✓, ballot, box, check, checked, done, off, tick

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.