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🔲 Black square button

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🔲 Emoji meaning

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🔲 Meaning

A square with straight edges and right angles expresses balance and stability. Black is the color of darkness and can be threatening as well as fascinating. The opposite of black is white, the color of brightness.

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Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Black square button” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ black

Keywords removed

- black square button

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ black square button

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ button + geometric + square

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