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U+25CA · LOZENGE

Lozenge

CodepointU+25CA
NameLOZENGE
Decimal9674
BlockGeometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategorySo — Other Symbol
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 97 8A`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`25CA`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000025CA`	4 bytes
HTML named	`&loz;`	named character reference
HTML named	`&lozenge;`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`◊`
HTML hex	`◊`
CSS	`\25CA`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u25CA`
JSON	`\u25CA`
Python	`\u25CA`
Python	`\N{LOZENGE}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u25CA`
C / C++	`\u25CA`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{25CA}`
Go	`\u25CA`
Ruby	`\u25CA`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(9674)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%97%8A`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+16DCᛜRunic Letter Ingwaz U+22C4⋄Diamond Operator U+25C7◇White Diamond U+2662♢White Diamond Suit U+1F754🝔Alchemical Symbol for Soap U+10294𐊔Lycian Letter Kk U+118B7𑢷Warang Citi Capital Letter Bu

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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →

U+25C4◄Black Left-Pointing Pointer U+25C5◅White Left-Pointing Pointer U+25C6◆Black Diamond U+25C7◇White Diamond U+25C8◈White Diamond Containing Black Small Diamond U+25C9◉Fisheye U+25CB○White Circle U+25CC◌Dotted Circle U+25CD◍Circle with Vertical Fill U+25CE◎Bullseye U+25CF●Black Circle U+25D0◐Circle with Left Half Black