What ◆ means
A diamond bullet for lists, labels, and separators. A lone ◆ in a reply is decorative or organizational, not affectionate, hostile, or coded. Copy it from the palette above when you want a crisper alternative to a round bullet.
No single inventor or universal ancient meaning turned up in the sources checked on 2026-09-04. Diamond shapes recur in print ornaments and bullets, but this glyph works as a general geometric marker, not a card suit.
Clean and layout-focused; more designed than conversational.
Do not read a lone ◆ as affection or code.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAt the start of several lines
A bullet introducing list items.
Alone between two phrases
A decorative separator or section break.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does black diamond look different in different apps?
Font differences. ◆ is a font-drawn glyph, so weight and proportions change with the typeface.
How to type ◆
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 25C6, then Alt+X to get ◆.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “black diamond”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 25c6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
◆CSS
\25C6Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
◆
HTML hex
◆
CSS content
content: "\25C6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%97%86
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.