▪️black small square
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▪️ Emoji meaning

A small, minimal accent used for emphasis, marking, or as a focal point.

▪️ Meaning

A small, minimal accent used for emphasis, marking, or as a focal point.

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Color Variant

Black small square

Black small square vs white small square; both bullet-style dots or markers.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Black small square” 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 + small

Keywords removed

- black small square

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ black small square

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ geometric + square

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