Black Rectangle

Black Rectangle is a basic geometric shape used as a bullet point, status indicator, rating marker, or simple visual accent in plain text, chat, and lightweight UI design.

Unicode block: Geometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF). This block standardizes basic geometric shapes — squares, circles, triangles, diamonds — as plain-text characters, useful anywhere a simple visual marker is needed without loading an image.

At Unicode code point U+25AC (decimal 9644), Black Rectangle is the 13th of 96 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, it has a documented Windows Alt code, though no dedicated single-key Mac shortcut — Mac users generally rely on copy-paste for it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.

💡 Good to know: Filled vs. outlined versions of the same shape (■ vs □) often carry an implied meaning like "selected" vs "unselected" — check for a matching pair if you need that distinction.