U+2666 "♦" Black Diamond Suit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♦
U+2666 "♦" Black Diamond Suit is a typographic symbol that represents one of the four suits found in a standard deck of playing cards, specifically the diamond suit. Its design typically consists of a square or rhombus shape rotated 45 degrees, giving it the appearance of a diamond or lozenge, and is often used in card games as a marker for the suit associated with wealth and material gain. In digital contexts, this character serves as a convenient way to denote the diamond suit without requiring images or specialized fonts, and it is also employed in various non-card related applications such as mathematical notation and graphic design for its distinctive geometric form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2666 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black Diamond Suit |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ♦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ♦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x99 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2666 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002666 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2666 |