Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack diamond
Unicode numberU+25C6
CategoryDiamonds
DescriptionThe Unicode character ◆, or U+25C6, is known as "Black Diamond". This symbol belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. As the name suggests, it's a filled or "black" diamond shape, typically used in various content as a symbol or marker. The exact usage can vary significantly depending on the context, including graphical illustrations, bullet points in a list, to represent a node in network diagrams, or a placeholder in text. It is not to be confused with the suit of cards symbol, which has its own Unicode character.

Encoding

HTML Entity◆
HTML Entity (hex)◆
URL Escape Code%E2%97%86
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x97 0x86
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010111:10000110
UTF-160x25C6
UTF-320x000025C6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25C6"
CSS Code\25C6
JavaScript"\u25C6"
Perl\x{25C6}
Python 2u"\u25C6"
Python 3\u25C6
Ruby\u{25C6}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ◆ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9670;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25C6";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References