What ◇ means
◇ organizes text visually as a list bullet, divider, or decorative ornament. Unicode defines no emotional meaning or slang for it; people use it to structure notes, lists, or profiles cleanly without adding visual weight.
In Japanese typography and East Asian layout, hollow shapes like ◇ can serve as optional markers for subheadings or notes. Across digital documents, it provides an open alternative to standard round bullet points.
Neutral and neat; reads as layout formatting rather than emotion.
Do not mistake it for the playing card suit in card games.
Part of collections
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA bullet point introducing a list item or sub-point.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
2Does ◇ mean the same thing as the card suit ?
No. While both look like outlined diamonds, represents the playing card suit in card games, whereas ◇ is a general geometric shape.
Why does ◇ appear wider in some fonts?
In East Asian fonts, geometric shapes are often designed with ambiguous width that can render about as wide as a square CJK character.
Collections with ◇
15How to type or find ◇
- Also called
- hollow diamond · open diamond · outline diamond
- Search it as
- diamond separator · geometric diamond
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
◇\25C7◇ or ◇ in HTML source.\u25C7 in string literals in JavaScript, Python, C, and languages supporting Unicode escapes.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.




