What is the difference between Diamond Operator and Runic Letter Ingwaz?

Diamond Operator is U+22C4 in the Mathematical Operators block. Runic Letter Ingwaz is U+16DC in the Runic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Diamond Operator?

The HTML entity for Diamond Operator (U+22C4) is ⋄.

What is the HTML entity for Runic Letter Ingwaz?

The HTML entity for Runic Letter Ingwaz (U+16DC) is ᛜ.

Are Diamond Operator and Runic Letter Ingwaz the same Unicode character?

No. Diamond Operator is U+22C4 (decimal 8900) and Runic Letter Ingwaz is U+16DC (decimal 5852). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Diamond Operator and Runic Letter Ingwaz?

Diamond Operator (U+22C4) encodes as E2 8B 84 in UTF-8. Runic Letter Ingwaz (U+16DC) encodes as E1 9B 9C in UTF-8.

Diamond Operator vs Runic Letter Ingwaz

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

⋄

Diamond Operator

U+22C4

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ᛜ

Runic Letter Ingwaz

U+16DC

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Property Comparison

Property	Diamond Operator	Runic Letter Ingwaz
Codepoint	`U+22C4`	`U+16DC`
Decimal	`8900`	`5852`
HTML Entity	`⋄`	`ᛜ`
HTML Decimal	`⋄`	`ᛜ`
HTML Hex	`⋄`	`ᛜ`
UTF-8	`E2 8B 84`	`E1 9B 9C`
UTF-16	`22 C4`	`16 DC`
UTF-32	`000022C4`	`000016DC`
CSS Escape	`\22C4`	`\16DC`
JS Escape	`\u22C4`	`\u16DC`
Python Escape	`\u22C4`	`\u16DC`
URL Encoded	`%E2%8B%84`	`%E1%9B%9C`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Mathematical Operators`	`Runic`
Script	`Common`	`Runic`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`3.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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