A solid red square, best known as the way people write a soccer red card without a photo of one, an outright ejection in a single character. Off the pitch it carries red's usual weight: stop, error, something gone wrong.
What 🟥 means
A solid square painted red, with a thick red or black outline. The 🟥 Red Square emoji could be used as a symbol for anything that's red or that's associated with the psychological and metaphorical interpretations of this color.
How and when to use it
- Giving a red card to a soccer or football player indicates immediate suspension from the field. Similarly, you can apply 🟥 metaphorically too. For instance, "Please. Put thy ignorance out of this discussion 🟥" or "Nope. What you said is unacceptable. Please leave 🟥".
- 🟥 is another member of the 'eye-catchy' series of emojis, as a single inclusion of this emoji into any context is bound to gravitate attention. Hence, if you're forwarding any content that needs immediate consumption, use 🟥.
- 🟥 is a mandatory emoji if you're posting or reposting content with line graphs, bar graphs, or any other graph, and red occupies a prominent space and value in the chart.
- A square may also imply physical places and/or tourist attractions, like Madison Square Garden, Times Square, Red Square, etc. So, 🟥 could be part of references to such squares.
Other Names
- 🟥 Large Red Square
- 🟥 Bold Red Square
- 🟥 Four-Sided Red Solid
- 🟥 Red Card
- 🟥 Red Solid
- 🟥 Red
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › geometric
- Codepoints
U+1F7E5- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:red_square:GitHub · Discord:large_red_square:Slack- Keywords
- card, penalty, red, 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 — 🟥 Red Square or 😐 Neutral Face?
Runs with a crowd
🟥 keeps company in red emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.