💠

Diamond with a Dot Emoji 💠

Most platforms draw this as a shiny blue diamond with a paler diamond and dot nested at its center. It began on Japanese carrier phones in 1999 as a stylized hydrangea, and Google's version still leans closer to that flower; today it mostly works as pure Japanese-style decoration, a kawaii flourish more than a symbol with one fixed meaning.

What 💠 means

An icy blue rhombus bordered with a darker shade of blue and detailed with four round blue points on each side, thus meeting each end of the 'X' intersection within. At the center is a white or yellow dot.

The 💠 Diamond With Dot emoji could signify ice, for most of it. However, it may also suggest plain diamonds, jewelry, and ice as a metaphor for the same. This emoji may have implications based on the characteristics of a diamond too.

How and when to use it

If you're talking about something that's cold, literally, as in the season or temperature, or metaphorical as in a cold vibe/person, you could use 💠. Like, "Just chilling with this chilled cup of chocolate 💠" or "Yikes. Seems like I can sense some hostility here 💠".
Similarly, if you're trying to convey freezing temperatures with an emoji, 💠 might just be the perfect one - "The peas I left in the fridge are crystal beads now 💠" or "It was freezing, but weirdly, warm 💠".
💠 may interpret as a flower glyph too. You can apply this emoji while directly referring to a flower, the aspects of one or even a sense of something being floral or flowery - "Reduce the amount of flowery language, please 💠" or "Here's a blue lotus to make your day 💠".
Generally, you may use 💠 in the context of anything blue; the sky, water, a Monday, etc. For example, "The sky is bluuuutifull 💠" or "You're like water 💠Free-flowing, yet tough and merciless".
While indicating that someone or something is a diamond or a gem, 💠 could be that point of reference. For instance, "Aww such a gem! 💠".

Other Names

💠 Diamond
💠 Ice Cube
💠 Icy/Ice
💠 Blue Diamond
💠 Blue Diamond With Dot
💠 Flower/Floral/Flowery
💠 Cuteness
💠 Kawaii
💠 Diamond Flower
💠 Diamond Shape With a Dot Inside

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › geometric
Codepoints: U+1F4A0
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :diamond_shape_with_a_dot_inside:
Keywords: comic, diamond, dot, geometric

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.