DIY scoreboards and quiz grids reach for this purple square when a group needs to assign each team or player its own color rather than a name. It never picked up a scripted meaning the way its green and yellow neighbors did through Wordle, so it stays a blank slot people fill in themselves.
What 🟪 means
A solid, four-sided polygon filled with bright purple and enclosed within a black outline. The 🟪 Purple Square emoji is a reference to purple and all its other shades and variations. It could also symbolize anything associated with the color.
How and when to use it
- Purple has a prominent tint of mysticism attached to it, along with other references to luxury, in general, and wealth of any kind. If you're referring to something like this, you may use 🟪.
- Speaking of mysticism, purple and its variants are often used to paint the universe on containable pages, literally, of course. In the textual realm, you could use 🟪 to convey the same. Like, "You are the universe in ecstatic motion 🟪" or "We're a speck in endlessness 🟪".
- On Snapchat, 🟪 indicates a received audio note. While referring to anything that's vocal by nature, you could apply 🟪. For example, "No one asks for an opinion. But everyone's entitled to one 🟪".
- While sharing posts or reposts of anything that has a considerable amount of purple in it, 🟪 could add an aesthetic edge to the same, in the caption; purple clothing, art pieces, jewelry, etc.
Other Names
- 🟪 Large Purple Square
- 🟪 Purple Solid
- 🟪 Four-Sided Purple Polygon
- 🟪 Purple Button
- 🟪 Purple
- 🟪 Glossy Purple Square
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › geometric
- Codepoints
U+1F7EA- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:purple_square:GitHub · Discord:large_purple_square:Slack- Keywords
- purple, 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 — 🟪 Purple Square or 🏄♀️ Woman Surfing?
Runs with a crowd
🟪 keeps company in purple emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.