U+25C6 "◆" Black Diamond Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+25C6 "◆" Black Diamond is a solid, filled geometric shape that represents a diamond or rhombus and belongs to the Geometric Shapes block, encoded in Unicode 1.1 in 1993. It is commonly used in digital typography as a decorative symbol or bullet point, in user interface design to indicate a special menu item or selection, and in mathematics or logic to denote a modal operator or the end of a proof. Its solid black form provides a strong visual contrast, making it useful for diagrams, lists, and icons where a simple, bold marking is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+25C6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black Diamond |
| Block | Geometric Shapes |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ◆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ◆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x97 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x25C6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000025C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u25c6 |