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U+25CA Lozenge

U+25CA was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+25A0 to U+25FF Geometric Shapes in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+25CA forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The CLDR project calls this character “lozenge” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: diamond, rhombus.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A lozenge ( LOZ-inj; symbol: ◊), often referred to as a diamond, is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and the word is sometimes used simply as a synonym (from Old French losenge) for rhombus. Most often, though, lozenge refers to a thin rhombus—a rhombus with two acute and two obtuse angles, especially one with acute angles of 45°. The lozenge shape is often used in parquetry (with acute angles that are 360°/n with n being an integer higher than 4, because they can be used to form a set of tiles of the same shape and size, reusable to cover the plane in various geometric patterns as the result of a tiling process called tessellation in mathematics) and as decoration on ceramics, silverware and textiles. It also features in heraldry and playing cards.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	9674
UTF-8	E2 97 8A
UTF-16	25 CA
UTF-32	00 00 25 CA
URL-Quoted	%E2%97%8A
HTML hex reference	◊
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â—Š
HTML named entity	&loz;
HTML named entity	&lozenge;
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 37 9E 30
Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes)	D7
Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes)	D7
Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes)	D7
Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes)	D7
L^AT_EX	\lozenge
AGL: Latin-2	lozenge
AGL: Latin-3	lozenge
AGL: Latin-4	lozenge
AGL: Latin-5	lozenge
Adobe Glyph List	lozenge
digraph	LZ

Related Characters

Confusables

Runic Letter Ingwaz

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	LOZENGE
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Geometric Shapes
General Category (gc)	Other Symbol
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Lozenge
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Lozenge
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Lozenge
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Lozenge
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Lozenge
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Lozenge
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Lozenge
Case Folding (cf)	Lozenge
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Lozenge
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✘
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✔
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Lozenge
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Lozenge
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✔
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Lozenge
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Lozenge
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U