What ⬧ means
It has no fixed chat meaning.
A lozenge is a stretched diamond shape. In text, ⬧ can mark an item or decorate a line.
why does ⬧ look different
The font controls its proportions.
This text character is drawn by the reader's font, so its width and angles can shift. One font may make it look more like a diamond than a lozenge.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
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Black Medium Diamond
Named black medium diamond; this one is named a lozenge.
White Medium Lozenge
White medium lozenge: same shape name, without the fill.
Black Small Lozenge
Black small lozenge: same named shape at a smaller size.
Black Lozenge
A separate black-lozenge character, not the same Unicode character.
Diamond Suit
♦ is the diamond card suit, often drawn as a narrow lozenge; ⬧ is a plain geometric shape.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
3A narrow-diamond section break
A slim diamond bullet for a list line
Hollow and filled lozenges alternating in a border
Questions people ask
1Is ⬧ the Ethereum symbol?
No. A 2024 Unicode proposal records it as one temporary Ethereum stand-in among several, in 2.8% of 36 representative samples.
More like this
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Collections with ⬧
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How to type or find ⬧
- Also called
- black lozenge
- Search it as
- lozenge · diamond symbol · filled diamond · text diamond · diamond bullet · ethereum symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⬧CSS
\2B27Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⬧
HTML hex
⬧
CSS content
content: "\2B27";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AC%A7
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.