This is the wrong-spot half of 🟩 Green Square's Wordle code: a right letter stuck in the wrong position rather than a miss. It moonlights as a soccer yellow card too, the referee's caution that comes before an actual red card.
What 🟨 means
A bright and vibrant four-sided yellow solid. The 🟨 Yellow Square emoji indicates the color, the citric flavor associated with it, and other branched interpretations such as warmth, happiness, and freedom based on the psychology of color.
How and when to use it
- Research has it that yellow is the fastest perceived color by the human brain. Hence, backing its usage in the fast-food industry. So, you can use 🟨 if you're referring to something that's super fast in perception or to be perceived.
- Examples for the previous point - "He's so quick to spy on her. One move and he immediately knows 🟨" or "I don't have a problem with perception, but I do have a problem with how fast you are to judge 🟨".
- Yellow is generally the color of summer, the sun and all things sunny - "I had the most soothing summer last year 🟨", "She's like summer, warm and full of life 🟨" or "I like how subtle the sun is today 🟨".
- 🟨 is a must when the context is directly referring to the color in any way. For instance, "Remember the color code! 🟨" or "Hey, we're deciding on a yellow-themed party 🟨".
Other Names
- 🟨 Yellow Solid
- 🟨 Four-Sided Yellow Solid
- 🟨 Large Yellow Square
- 🟨 Yellow Block
- 🟨 Yellow Square Button
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › geometric
- Codepoints
U+1F7E8- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:yellow_square:GitHub · Discord:large_yellow_square:Slack- Keywords
- card, penalty, square, yellow
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 — 🟨 Yellow Square or 🪿 Goose?
Runs with a crowd
🟨 keeps company in yellow emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.