What ♢ means
Beside a rank, ♢ marks a playing card in the diamond suit. In Bridge score sheets and card-game notation, writers frequently use the outline suit symbol alongside card values, where its shape remains distinct.
Outside card games, ♢ occasionally turns up as a decorative bullet point or spacer in profiles. Because it is a standard text character rather than an emoji, its exact width and line weight depend entirely on your current font.
Crisp and utilitarian in card notation, light and decorative in casual text.
Without an adjacent card rank, readers may interpret it merely as a generic geometric rhombus.
Part of collections
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIdentifies the diamond suit of a playing card in written hand notation.
Don't confuse it with
3Combination ideas
5Worth knowing
- The French suit name carreau originally referred to square paving tiles set on a diagonal point.
Questions people ask
2Is ♢ different from the solid diamond suit ?
Only in appearance. Both indicate the diamond suit, but ♢ is outlined, making it cleaner in monochrome text.
Why is it called 'white' diamond suit?
In Unicode and typography, 'white' designates hollow or outline characters, contrasting with solid 'black' glyphs.
Collections with ♢
2How to type or find ♢
- Also called
- hollow diamond · diamond outline · open diamond suit
- Search it as
- card diamond · carreau · playing card symbol · karo · diamond suit
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
♢\2662Codes and encoding1 code points
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