U+1FBAE "🮮" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Diamond Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1FBAE "🮮" Box Drawings Light Diagonal Diamond is a relatively recent addition to the Unicode Standard, introduced in version 13.0 released in 2020, and belongs to the Symbols for Legacy Computing block. Unlike more common box-drawing characters that form straight lines and right angles, this glyph represents a diamond shape with light, diagonal strokes that cross in the center. Its primary purpose is to aid in the visualization of schematic diagrams, flowcharts, or early computer graphics and terminal interfaces where diagonal connectors are needed to depict branches or junctions in a network. This character helps fill a gap in older text-based rendering systems that previously lacked a straightforward way to express such diagonal intersections without resorting to complex arrangements of other characters.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
🮮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
🮮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9F 0xAE 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD83E 0xDFAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001FBAE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud83e\udfae |
Unicode Properties