What 🞜 means
A nearby legend or label tells you what it marks.
Microsoft dates the Wingdings family's design and release to 1990–1992. Wingdings 2 names this glyph rhombtarget; the Unicode source chart identifies its source as w-2179.
Wingdings supplied interface icons, bullets, ornaments, targets, and stars. In 2011, Unicode's proposal argued that font-specific mappings were hard to exchange and search; encoding the shapes gave them portable text identities.
Why can 🞜 look different in another app?
The selected font draws the shape, even for the same character.
A font without this glyph may show a missing-character box or a fallback shape. Check the destination app before relying on it in a diagram or label.
Technical and diagrammatic; in casual chat it reads as decoration or a labeled marker, not a familiar reaction.
An unsupported font can turn the target into a box.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
2Why is the diamond target missing from my font?
Your font may not include this glyph. A fallback can show an empty box or a different symbol; use a font that supports it and inspect the finished document. The text character itself stays the same.
Is the Wingdings 2 version a Unicode character?
No. The Wingdings 2 entry draws the shape only while that font is active; Unicode text uses a separate character that does not depend on Wingdings 2.
How to type 🞜
🞜\1F79CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.