Windows
2 options- In Word / Outlook: type 25A9 then press Alt + X.
- Anywhere: press Win + . to open the emoji & symbol picker, then search.
Square With Diagonal Crosshatch Fill
A symbol from the Geometric Shapes collection. Click the symbol or the button below to copy.
- Symbol
- ▩
- Unicode
- U+25A9
- HTML entity
- ▩
- Category
- Geometric Shapes
Export
Download Square With Diagonal Crosshatch Fill as a vector SVG or a raster PNG.
SVG uses the system font stack — open in any vector editor and convert to outlines if needed. PNGs have a transparent background.
10 of 48 in the geometric shapes collection
About the square with diagonal crosshatch fill symbol
Square With Diagonal Crosshatch Fill is a decorative geometric character featuring a solid square boundary filled with intersecting slanted lines. It is primarily recognized as a graphical glyph within the Geometric Shapes block and used across various writing systems. While it does not have a formal phonetic pronunciation, it is typically described by its visual appearance as a crosshatched square or a mesh block.
In practical applications, this symbol often serves as a specific legend marker or pattern indicator in technical diagrams and cartography to represent shaded regions. It is frequently seen in architectural drafting and legacy computing environments to denote fill patterns or textures. Within social media posts and digital typography, the character is sometimes employed as a decorative bullet point or a visual separator to structure text without conveying a specific linguistic meaning.
How to type Square With Diagonal Crosshatch Fill
Native keyboard shortcuts for each operating system — derived from the codepoint, so the steps below are always accurate.
macOS
2 options- Enable “Unicode Hex Input” in System Settings → Keyboard, then hold Option and type 25A9.
- Or: Control + Command + Space opens the Character Viewer — search by name.
Linux
1 step- Press Ctrl + Shift + U, type 25A9, then press Enter or Space.
Copy in every format
Every form of this character — for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, URLs and more. Click any value to copy.
Part of the Geometric Shapes block
▩ square with diagonal crosshatch fill lives inside the Geometric Shapes Unicode block. Browse every indexed character in Geometric Shapes →
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