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Technical information

Symbol◆
NameBlack diamond
Unicode numberU+25C6
CategoryDiamonds
DescriptionThe Unicode character ◆, or U+25C6, is known as "Black Diamond". This symbol belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. As the name suggests, it's a filled or "black" diamond shape, typically used in various content as a symbol or marker. The exact usage can vary significantly depending on the context, including graphical illustrations, bullet points in a list, to represent a node in network diagrams, or a placeholder in text. It is not to be confused with the suit of cards symbol, which has its own Unicode character.

Encoding

HTML Entity◆
HTML Entity (hex)◆
URL Escape Code%E2%97%86
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x97 0x86
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010111:10000110
UTF-160x25C6
UTF-320x000025C6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25C6"
CSS Code\25C6
JavaScript"\u25C6"
Perl\x{25C6}
Python 2u"\u25C6"
Python 3\u25C6
Ruby\u{25C6}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ◆ in sentence and in bold like this ◆ and in italic like this ◆.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9670;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25C6";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References