What ๐ means
A diamond shape with a dot in the center, like a flower or a cut gem seen from above. It has no fixed meaning and is mostly decorative.
People use ๐ as a bullet, a border or a touch of style in bios and captions. Some use it for gems, crystals, snowflakes or tiles.
Facts
Diamond with a dot ๐ is an emoji in the symbols category, under geometric. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :diamond_shape_with_a_dot_inside: or :diamond_with_a_dot:. People also look for it with words like โcomicโ, โdiamondโ, โdotโ, or โgeometricโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
symbols ยท Unicode 6.0