Red square emoji 🟥
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F7E5
What 🟥 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Red square 🟥 is tagged with these keywords: card, penalty, red, square.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing card or penalty in the emoji search brings up 🟥.
Red square 🟥 is one of 34 emoji in the shapes subgroup of symbols (224 emoji), next to 🟧 🟨 🟩 🟦.
Will 🟥 show on my friend's phone?
🟥 was added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🟥
Any emoji picker finds 🟥 when you search for red square.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type red square.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type red square in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type red square.
Codes for developers
Red square 🟥 is a single code point, U+1F7E5. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F7E5 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🟥 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🟥 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F7E5"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F7E5} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%9F%A5 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9F A5 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🟥 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | red square |
| Português | quadrado vermelho |
| Español | cuadrado rojo |
| Italiano | quadrato rosso |
| Français | carré rouge |
| Deutsch | rotes Quadrat |
| Türkçe | kırmızı kare |
| Bahasa Indonesia | persegi merah |
| Polski | czerwony kwadrat |
| Русский | красный квадрат |
| 日本語 | 赤い四角 |
| 한국어 | 빨간색 사각형 |
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All symbols emoji →Questions people ask
What does the red square emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🟥 "red square" and links it with card, penalty, red, square. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the shapes subgroup of symbols.
When was the red square emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the red square emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🟥 when you search for red square.