Lozenge
Part of Geometric Shapes
Lozenge has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ◊
- Unicode
- U+25CA
About this symbol
A lozenge is a diamond taller than it is wide. Cough lozenges were named after the shape, which they once had, in the 1500s. In heraldry, women’s coats of arms were traditionally shown on a lozenge rather than a shield.
In logic ◊ means “possibly”, so ◊p reads as “p may be true”, the partner of □ for “necessarily”.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LOZENGE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Geometric Shapes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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