What ♦️ means
It identifies diamonds, one of the four playing-card suits.
This poker diamond works after a card's number or letter to name its suit. A♦️, for example, means the ace of diamonds.
Card-table shorthand; outside games, a decorative flourish.
Use ♦️ for cards; 💎 for a jewel.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2Ace of diamonds.
All four playing-card suits together.
Worth knowing
- The characters behind ♦️ existed in Unicode 8 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 3.2 in 2002, emoji presentation in 2010.
- ♦️ is not one character. It is 2 of them glued together, which is why deleting it sometimes takes two presses of backspace and why it breaks character counters.
Questions people ask
1Why does it look black?
Text rendering can make it monochrome. This emoji includes an invisible selector requesting emoji presentation, but your app and font affect the result.
How to type ♦️
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “diamond suit”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “diamond suit”.
Chat apps
:diamonds:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
♦️Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
♦️
HTML hex
♦️
CSS content
content: "\2666\FE0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%99%A6%EF%B8%8F
1
On screen
2
Code points
2
JS .length
6
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.