U+25C7 "◇" White Diamond Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+25C7 "◇" White Diamond is a typographical symbol representing a hollow, diamond shaped glyph with four equal sides oriented upright, distinct from a square by its rotated 45 degree position. It belongs to the Geometric Shapes Unicode block and is commonly used in various contexts such as decorative bullet points, map symbols to denote locations, and in logical or mathematical notation to represent a diamond operator. This character serves as an unfilled variant of the solid black diamond U+25C6, and its design allows it to blend well in both text and diagrammatic applications where a neutral, open shape is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+25C7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White 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 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x25C7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000025C7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u25c7 |