BLACK SQUARE
- Category
- So — Other Symbol
- Block
- Geometric Shapes
- Script
- Common
- Plane
- Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
- Decimal
- 9632
Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent BLACK SQUARE in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.
| Encoding | Bytes (Hex) | Bytes (Decimal) | Byte count |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 96 A0 | 226 150 160 | 3 |
| UTF-16 LE | A0 25 | 160 37 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 25 A0 | 37 160 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | A0 25 00 00 | 160 37 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 25 A0 | 0 0 37 160 | 4 |
| ASCII | not supported | ||
| Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) | not supported | ||
| Windows-1252 | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) | not supported | ||
| KOI8-R | 94 | 148 | 1 |
| Shift-JIS | 81 A1 | 129 161 | 2 |
| EUC-JP | A2 A3 | 162 163 | 2 |
| GBK | A1 F6 | 161 246 | 2 |
| Big5 | A1 BD | 161 189 | 2 |
Escape Sequences
How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.
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View U+25A0 on CharLookup.com ↗UTF-8 Binary Breakdown
UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 1.1
- Bidi Class
- ON — Other Neutral