Diamond Symbols

💎 Gem stone is the diamond emoji. Its first meaning is the stone itself: wealth, luxury, jewellery, a flex. From there it became a compliment: someone or something that is a gem, precious, rare, “a hidden gem” of a café or a song. A 💎 from a girl or a guy after your name is praise, not a hint about carats. Apple, Google and Samsung all draw it as a pale blue brilliant-cut stone, which is why many people call it the blue diamond emoji too. 💍 Ring is the diamond on a band: engagement, proposal, “she said yes”.

Since the GameStop stock rally of January 2021, 💎🙌 diamond hands means holding an investment through every dip without selling; its opposite is 🧻🙌, paper hands. In crypto and stock chats 💎 therefore reads as “I am not selling”. One darker use exists: the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s guide to emoji drug codes lists 💎 among the signs used for crystal meth, which is where the “drug” results next to this emoji in search come from. In ordinary conversation it means nothing of the kind.

The four flat diamonds 🔷 🔶 🔹 🔸 are shapes, not gems: large and small, blue and orange. They came with the first big emoji release, Unicode 6.0 in 2010, from the Japanese carrier sets, where they were list markers, and that is still what they are best at. 🔹 and 🔸 are the most used bullet emoji on Telegram channels, Twitter threads and product posts, and 🔷 🔶 open headings. People search “blue diamond emoji meaning” and “orange diamond emoji meaning” expecting a code, but there is none beyond the colour. The blue diamond does occasionally get used as a wink at a well-known blue, diamond-shaped pill, and in that context the orange one is simply its partner.

💠 Diamond with a dot (Unicode’s full name is “diamond shape with a dot inside”) is a decoration: a blue diamond with curved sides and a dot or small diamond in the middle. On most platforms it looks like a four-petalled blue flower or a kaleidoscope, which is why it is also searched as the “blue flower emoji”, and it is a favourite in cute and kawaii bios next to ✨ 🌸 💙.

Diamond text symbols: ◆ ◇ ◈ ❖ and their sizes

◆ Black diamond and ◇ white diamond are the text diamonds almost every font has. Both sit in Unicode’s Geometric Shapes block since 1993 and work wherever emoji do not: usernames, game tags, headings, bullet lists, Word and Excel. In Japanese documents ◇ and ◆ are standard list markers, which is why Japanese keyboards type them easily, and in English they serve as bullets, dividers and decoration in bios (◆◇◆). ◈ puts a small black diamond inside a white one, and ❖, a black diamond with a white cross cut out of it, comes from the Zapf Dingbats font and is the most ornamental of the group.

The sizes are real characters, not font tricks. Unicode 5.1 added the medium and small set ⬥ ⬦ ⬩ with the matching lozenges ⬧ ⬨ ⬪ ⬫, and Unicode 7.0 in 2014 took over the Wingdings diamonds as 🞗 🞘 🞙 🞚 🞛 🞜 and the lozenges 🞝 🞞 🞟 🞠, so a black diamond now exists in six sizes from tiny to full. The grid above lines them up: pick the one that matches the weight of your text. ⯁ black diamond centred is the same shape placed exactly in the middle of its box, for bullets that should sit level with the letters.

⬖ ⬗ ⬘ ⬙ are diamonds with one half black, useful for legends, progress markers and matched pairs. ⟠ is a lozenge cut by a horizontal line and ⛋ a white diamond inside a square, both from the technical and broadcasting symbol sets. The newest diamonds come from old computers: 🮮 and 🮿 (Unicode 13, 2020) reproduce diagonal diamonds from 1980s home-computer character sets, and 𜲍 inverse black diamond arrived only with Unicode 16 in 2024, so few fonts show it yet. If a diamond appears as an empty box, the device has no font for it; ◆ ◇ ◈ ◊ ♦ ❖ are the safe ones everywhere.

Diamond or lozenge: what the shapes are called

In geometry the shape is a rhombus: four equal sides, opposite angles equal. A square turned on its corner is a rhombus too, and “diamond” is the everyday word for it. Unicode uses both words with a precise difference: a diamond (◆ ◇) is the square standing on a corner, while a lozenge (◊ ⧫) is taller than it is wide, the shape of a kite without the long tail. The word lozenge comes from Old French and named the shape first; the cough drop took the name because the early tablets were cut into diamonds.

Lozenges run through heraldry and textiles. In coats of arms the lozenge is a charge in its own right, and by tradition an unmarried woman or a widow displays her arms on a lozenge instead of a shield. A field covered in lozenges is lozengy, the pattern of Harlequin’s costume and of the Bavarian flag. Argyle knitwear is lozenges with thin diagonal lines over them. In Word or a message, ◊ and ⧫ give you those shapes, ◆ and ◇ the squarer ones.

The gem gives the shape its glamour. Diamond is the hardest natural material and the traditional stone of the 60th anniversary; its name is from the Greek adamas, “unbreakable”. That is why a diamond symbol next to a name or a product reads as top quality, rarity and something that lasts, and why premium tiers in apps and games are so often called Diamond and marked with ◆ or 💎.

Where a diamond sign has a fixed meaning: roads, ski runs, chemistry, cards

On roads in the United States and Canada a diamond-shaped yellow sign is a warning (curve ahead, deer crossing, merging traffic), and a white diamond painted on the asphalt marks a reserved lane: carpool or HOV, bus or bike. Trucks carry diamond-shaped hazardous-material placards with a class number, and the NFPA 704 fire diamond on a chemical container splits into four small diamonds: blue for health, red for flammability, yellow for instability, white for special hazards, each rated 0 to 4. That diamond is the one people mean by “diamond symbol in chemistry”.

On ski slopes in North America a black diamond ◆ marks the most difficult runs and a double black diamond ◆◆ the expert-only ones, above the blue square ■ and the green circle ●. In flowcharts a diamond is a decision: the question goes inside, yes and no leave from its corners. In modal logic ◇ means “possibly” and □ “necessarily”. In APL the diamond ⋄ separates statements on one line, and in Java the empty angle brackets <> are nicknamed the diamond operator.

♦ Diamonds is one of the four French card suits, red with hearts, originally the suit of merchants; the German deck has bells where the French has diamonds. ♦ was in Unicode 1.1 in 1993 and became an emoji in 2015, so ♦️ with the emoji selector is a red picture and plain ♦ takes the colour of the text, which is what people searching for a “black diamond emoji” actually want. ♢ is the outline suit, and 🃁 the ace of diamonds from the playing-card block. In Magic: The Gathering the colourless mana symbol has been a diamond ◇ since the Oath of the Gatewatch set in 2016. Renault’s badge has been a diamond since 1925 and Mitsubishi’s name means “three water chestnuts”, drawn as the three red diamonds of its logo; and in Steven Universe White, Yellow, Blue and Pink Diamond rule the Gems, so fans type 💎 🔷 🔶 for them.

How to type a diamond symbol on a keyboard, in Word and in Excel

On Windows hold Alt and type 4 on the numeric keypad for ♦, the only diamond with an Alt code of its own. In Word, Outlook and WordPad type the code and press Alt + X: 25C6 becomes ◆, 25C7 ◇, 25C8 ◈, 25CA ◊ and 2666 ♦. The Symbol dialog (Insert → Symbol) lists the same shapes under Geometric Shapes, and the Wingdings font there has the small diamonds that Unicode later encoded as 🞗 🞘 🞙. On a Mac, Option + Shift + V types ◊ on a US keyboard, and Control + Command + Space opens the character viewer, where “diamond” finds the rest.

In Excel and Google Sheets use =UNICHAR(9670) for ◆, =UNICHAR(9671) for ◇, =UNICHAR(9674) for ◊ and =UNICHAR(9830) for ♦. In HTML write ♦ for ♦, ◊ for ◊ and ◆ for ◆. In LaTeX, \diamond gives the operator ⋄, \Diamond (amssymb) the larger hollow ◇, \lozenge ◊, \blacklozenge ⧫ and \diamondsuit ♢.

On an iPhone or Android phone open the emoji keyboard and search “diamond” for 💎 🔷 🔶 🔹 🔸 💠. The text diamonds are not on the phone keyboard, so copy them from this page and paste them into Instagram, TikTok, Discord or a document. Everywhere else, the fastest way is the same: tap a diamond above, which copies it, and paste.