Green square is the correct-letter, right-spot tile in Wordle's color code, and the reason most people ever type a square at all. Wordle went from a private project released in October 2021 to a New York Times acquisition three months later, and its share grid, built from this square and a few others, is still how people post a solved puzzle without spoiling the answer.
What 🟩 means
A bright green square, supported by a thick green or black outline. The 🟩 Green Square emoji has an innate reference to the color in any form, size, or shape, along with metaphorical implications based on human perception, idioms, and psychology.
How and when to use it
- If you’re using a literal or metaphorical reference to a green screen anywhere, 🟩 would be a valuable addition. Like, “We’re green screening the whole thing 🟩” or “You cannot green screen lies to make it seem like the truth, you know 🟩”.
- 🟩 may also symbolize a green button used in many places such as fairs, gaming booths, electronic devices, etc. The interpretation of this use-case in all these contexts is a ‘go’ or an approval.
- Similarly, you could apply the point above in virtual frameworks as well. For instance, “I give the plan a go 🟩”, “Why don’t you just press the green button with her 🟩?” or “It’s time for mission: YES WE CAN 🟩”.
- The square in 🟩 could also represent a ‘patch’, and a green patch suggests a fertile or cultivatable piece of land. Metaphorically, this point could suggest an opportunity. Like, “This is a wonderful opportunity. Nurture it! 🟩” or “It would be a piece of cake to fructify this plan 🟩”.
Other Names
- 🟩 Large Green Square
- 🟩 Green Solid
- 🟩 Four-Sided Green Solid
- 🟩 Green Patch
- 🟩 Green Block
- 🟩 Green
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › geometric
- Codepoints
U+1F7E9- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:green_square:GitHub · Discord:large_green_square:Slack- Keywords
- green, 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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🟩 Green Square or 🇱🇮 Flag: Liechtenstein?
Runs with a crowd
🟩 keeps company in green emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.