U+25C8 WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND

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Decimal / Nº
9672
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+25C8, officially named WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Geometric Shapes block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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9672 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 97 88 Copied!
UTF-16 25 C8 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 C8 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%97%88 Copied!
HTML hex reference ◈ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'25C8' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u25C8 Copied!
C and C++ \u25c8 Copied!
C# \u25c8 Copied!
CSS \0025C8 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9672) Copied!
Go \u25c8 Copied!
JavaScript \u25C8 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{25c8} Copied!
JSON \u25C8 Copied!
Java \u25C8 Copied!
Lua \u{25C8} Copied!
Matlab char(9672) Copied!
Perl \x{25C8} Copied!
PHP \u{25c8} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\25C8' Copied!
PowerShell `u{25C8} Copied!
Python \u25c8 Copied!
Ruby \u{25c8} Copied!
Rust \u{25c8} Copied!