What 🞘 means
A small diamond bullet, divider or decorative dot. People put it in front of list items, between words in a heading or menu (Home 🞘 News 🞘 Contact), in map legends and in decorative name lines. Because it is plain text, it takes the colour and size of the surrounding font, unlike a colourful emoji.
Its size is the whole idea. Unicode encodes black diamonds as a graded series: is the tiniest, then 🞘, then , , and finally the full-size . A designer can pick a smaller diamond for second-level items and a bigger one for main points without changing the font size.
Where does it come from?
From the symbol fonts Windows shipped, Wingdings and Webdings. Wingdings arrived with Windows 3.1 in 1992 and stored its pictures in place of ordinary letters, so a diamond typed in Wingdings could turn into a random letter on a computer without that font. A 2011 proposal gave these shapes proper Unicode code points, and 🞘 joined the standard with them, so it now travels as real text.
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2Why do I see an empty box instead?
Your font lacks it. 🞘 is drawn by fonts, and many phone and older fonts don't include it; another font or device usually shows it.
Can I use it as a bullet in Word or Google Docs?
Yes. Choose a custom bullet symbol and pick 🞘; it scales with the text. If the reader's font lacks it, they will see a box.
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How to type or find 🞘
- Search it as
- tiny diamond · small black diamond · diamond bullet · black diamond symbol · rhombus · divider · bullet point
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🞘\1F798Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.