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• #R TRADEMARK SYMBOL MAC CODE#

The TeX command for the lozenge is \lozenge.

#R TRADEMARK SYMBOL MAC CODE#

The character is present in DOS code page 437 (at character code 4) and Mac-Roman (at character 215 = 0xd7). U+29EB ⧫ BLACK LOZENGE ( &blacklozenge, &lozf ).U+27E0 ⟠ LOZENGE DIVIDED BY HORIZONTAL RULE.U+2666 ♦ BLACK DIAMOND SUIT ( &diamondsuit, ♦).

U+22C4 ⋄ DIAMOND OPERATOR ( &diam, &Diamond, ⋄).In Unicode, the lozenge is encoded in multiple variants: In playing cards, the symbol for the suit of diamonds is a lozenge. Lozenges appear as symbols in ancient classic element systems, in amulets, and in religious symbolism. He also suggested therein that ancient plantations were laid out in a lozenge pattern. In 1658, the English philosopher Sir Thomas Browne published The Garden of Cyrus, subtitled The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, in which he outlined the mystical interconnection of art, nature and the universe via the quincunx pattern. Ĭommon Berber jewelry from the Aurès Mountains or Kabylie in Algeria also uses this pattern as a female fertility sign.

The lozenge symbolism is one of the main symbols for women in Berber carpets. The lozenge pattern also appears extensively in Celtic art, art from the Ottoman Empire, and ancient Phrygian art.

The ancient lozenge pattern often shows up in Diamond vault architecture, in traditional dress patterns of Slavic peoples, and in traditional Ukrainian embroidery. The lozenge motif dates from the Neolithic and Paleolithic period in Eastern Europe and represents a sown field and female fertility.