Unicode Character "■" (U+FFED)

The character (Halfwidth Black Square) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FFED. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ■.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Halfwidth Black Square
Unicode Codepoint U+FFED
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FFED Conversion

HTML (decimal) ■
HTML (hex) ■
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BF%AD
CSS \00FFED
JavaScript, JSON \uFFED
C, C++, Java \uFFED
Python \uFFED
Rust \u{FFED}
Ruby \uFFED

How to type "■"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F E D. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F E D. Release Alt.

Preview

  • Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBF 0xAD
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFFED
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FFED

References