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🔸Small Orange Diamond Emoji
The small orange diamond emoji 🔸 carries the codepoint U+1F538 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Symbols → Shapes & Colors.
What 🔸 small orange diamond means
Coloured circles, squares, diamonds and triangles used as bullets, swatches, progress bars and rating scales, since they line up neatly in a way faces never do. Most of the colours are recent: the orange, yellow, green, purple and brown circles and squares only arrived with Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Wordle later made the green, yellow and black squares instantly readable.
Unicode tags this one diamond, geometric and orange and files it under Symbols → Shapes & Colors.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F538 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔸 | |
| HTML decimal | 🔸 | |
| CSS | \1F538 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F538} | |
| Python | \U0001F538 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD38 | |
| Rust | \u{1f538} | |
| Swift | \u{1F538} | |
| PHP | \u{1F538} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 B8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD38 | |
| Base64 | 8J+UuA== | |
| Decimal | 128312 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🔸
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “small orange diamond”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “diamond”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f538and Enter. - HTML — paste
🔸.
How 🔸 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🔸Apple
- 🔸Segoe
- 🔸Noto
- 🔸System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🔸 small orange diamond emoji mean?+
🔸 is the small orange diamond emoji, tagged diamond, geometric and orange. Coloured circles, squares, diamonds and triangles used as bullets, swatches, progress bars and rating scales, since they line up neatly in a way faces never do. Most of the colours are recent: the orange, yellow, green, purple and brown circles and squares only arrived with Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Wordle later made the green, yellow and black squares instantly readable.
What is the Unicode code for 🔸?+
small orange diamond is U+1F538. In HTML that is 🔸, in CSS \1F538, and in JavaScript \u{1F538}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔸 emoji added?+
small orange diamond got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Shapes & Colors in Symbols.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🔸 small orange diamond.