U+20DF "⃟" Combining Enclosing Diamond Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⃟
U+20DF "⃟" Combining Enclosing Diamond is a diacritical mark designed to be placed around a preceding base character, forming a diamond-shaped enclosure that visually highlights or emphasizes the letter or symbol it surrounds. This combining character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block and is typically used in specialized typography, mathematical notations, or linguistic contexts where a distinct, geometric frame is needed to annotate or modify the appearance of the base character without altering its inherent meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20DF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Enclosing Diamond |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Enclosing Diamond |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
| General Category | Enclosing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⃟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⃟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x83 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20DF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20df |