Shapes

Geometric shapes to copy and paste — 301 of them on this page, and one tap copies any of them straight to your clipboard. No highlighting, no long-press menu, no sign-up. Use the search box to find a symbol by name, or right-click (long-press on mobile) to stack several into the combo tray and copy the whole decoration at once.

Geometric shape symbols to copy and paste — circles, squares and triangles
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Long-press or right-click a symbol to add it here instead of copying.

Most Used

The geometric shapes people copy most often — start here.

Single Symbols

One character each. These paste cleanly into any name or bio.

Combos & Decorations

Ready-made decorations. Tap once to copy the whole string.

Filled, outline and everything between

Nearly every shape here exists in at least two versions: filled and outline. ● and ○, ■ and □, ▲ and △. That pairing is what makes them so useful for anything that has an on and an off state — a checklist, a rating, a progress indicator built out of plain text.

There are also half-filled and shaded variants, ◐, ◑, ▒, ▓, which let you build a scale rather than a switch.

Ratings and bars without images

Five filled circles and two outline ones make a rating that works in any text field on any platform — no image, no font, nothing to load. The same trick with █ and ▒ gives you the progress bars that turn up in bios and README files. Both survive copy and paste intact.

Sizes are not consistent

Worth knowing before you build something precise: these characters come from several different Unicode blocks and their relative sizes are decided by the font, not by any standard. ● and ⬤ are both filled circles but often render at noticeably different sizes. If you are lining shapes up in a row, use variants from the same family and check the result.

Frequently asked questions

How do I make a star rating with symbols?

Use ★ for filled and ☆ for empty — five characters in a row. For a circular style, ● and ○ work the same way.

Do these shapes work in spreadsheets?

Yes, and they are commonly used there for status columns, since they need no conditional formatting and survive export to CSV.

What is the difference between ▪ and ■?

Size only. ▪ is a small black square and ■ is a full-size one. The small version works better as a bullet.

Can I change the colour of a shape symbol?

Yes — they are text characters, so they take whatever colour the surrounding text has. The coloured square emoji 🟥 🟦 are separate characters with fixed colours.

Popular shape symbols and what they are called

The hardest part of finding shape symbols is that most people have no name for the character they are looking for. Here are ten of the most-copied shape symbols on this page with their official Unicode names, so the search box — here or anywhere else — actually finds them next time.

  • ♔ — White Chess King
  • ♕ — White Chess Queen
  • ♛ — Black Chess Queen
  • △ — White Up-Pointing Triangle
  • ◌ — Dotted Circle
  • ◎ — Bullseye
  • ● — Black Circle
  • ◛ — Lower Half Inverse White Circle
  • ⭕ — Heavy Large Circle
  • ♖ — White Chess Rook

Checking shape symbols before you commit to them

Every character here is defined by the Unicode standard, which fixes what a character means but not how it is drawn. That is left to whichever font the reading device happens to use, which is why the same symbol can look rounder on an iPhone than on Android, and why a rarely-supported one shows as an empty box. If you want to check where a particular character comes from, the official Unicode character charts list every block.

In practice the rule is simple: the older and more common the character, the safer it is. If a decoration is going somewhere you cannot easily edit later — a username, a printed document, a shared profile — paste it into a message to yourself on a second device first and see what arrives.

Everything on this page is free to use. The shape symbols here are ordinary Unicode characters rather than images or a font you have to install, which is why they copy and paste cleanly between apps, survive being sent in a message, and cost you nothing to use commercially. Tap any of the shape symbols above whenever you need one.

More cute symbols to copy and paste

Looking for something to build with them? Try the cute username generator or the aesthetic bio maker.