Black Square
Part of Geometric Shapes
On Windows, hold Alt and type 254 on the numeric keypad to insert black square.
- Alt code
- Alt+254
- HTML entity
- ■
- Unicode
- U+25A0
About this symbol
■, the black square, is Alt+254, the last but one character of the IBM PC’s character set, code page 437. DOS programs often used it as a large bullet.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BLACK SQUARE
- Also called
- Moding mark (in ideographic text)
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Geometric Shapes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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