▫️
Palest and smallest square on the whole shelf, the hollow counterpart to ▪️ Black Small Square. This four-size ladder of black and white squares exists mostly because Japanese carrier phones needed several sizes of the same two shapes long before Unicode ever standardized emoji.
What ▫️ means
A teenie tiny four-sided white solid. The ▫️ White Small Square emoji could suggest a very small checker box, an animated illustration of medication or drugs, or even a squared dot used as bullet points.
How and when to use it
- If observed closely, ▫️ could actually indicate a cartoony version of a drug/medicine as mentioned in the previous point. And, likewise, you could apply this use-case metaphorically too.
- A few examples for the previous point are - "▫️ Don't do drugs, kids ▫️", "Hey. Here's a drug that could brighten your day ▫️ It's called common sense" or "Idk, just got popping in a bunch of meds ▫️".
- ▫️ may even suggest a lit-up square; which could be a room, an apartment, a part in the brain, etc., a super small one, however. Like, "Whooaa. Guess who just ignited their frontal cortex ▫️" or "Did you finally find that soft spot in your heart? ▫️"
- Although ▫️ could be used as bullet points, it's too small and hardly decipherable. In which case, it could be used to create space in written content; between words, paragraphs, or even sentences (horizontally and vertically, of course).
Other Names
- ▫️ Tiny White Square
- ▫️ Smallest White Square
- ▫️ White Square Bit
- ▫️ White Squared Dot
- ▫️ White Dot
- ▫️ White Bullet Point
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › geometric
- Codepoints
U+25AB U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:white_small_square:GitHub- Keywords
- geometric, small, square, white
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 — ▫️ White Small Square or 🕥 Ten-thirty?