Dice Symbols

All six faces of a die exist as single text characters — ⚀ ⚁ ⚂ ⚃ ⚄ ⚅ — alongside 🎲, the rolling-die emoji. Click a face to take it; the pips read as numbers, so ⚂⚄ writes a roll of three and five in two characters.

Copy and Paste Dice Symbols

A six-sided die has six faces and Unicode gives each one its own character, so a roll can be written rather than described. ⚂⚄ is a three and a five in two characters, and it stays text — searchable, sortable, the same colour as the words around it. Click a face to take it.

What Are Dice Symbols?

Dice symbols are the six die faces at U+2680 to U+2685, part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block since 1993. Each is a square with the pip pattern of that number, and each behaves like a letter: your font draws it, your text colour fills it, and it pastes anywhere text goes.

🎲 is the seventh character here and works differently. It is the emoji, a die drawn in perspective mid-roll, and it arrives in colour at its own size on most platforms. It says "dice" as a subject; the six faces say which number came up.

How to Use Dice Symbols

Copying Dice Symbols

Click any face in the grid and the bare character goes to your clipboard.

Pasting Dice Symbols Into Apps

Ctrl+V on Windows and Linux, Cmd+V on Mac, long-press and Paste on a phone. They work in a display name, a chat message, a spreadsheet column of results, or a printed game sheet.

Writing Rolls With Dice Symbols

Because each face is a number, a sequence of them is a record. ⚀⚀ is snake eyes, ⚅⚅ is boxcars, and ⚂⚃⚄ is a straight in three characters. That is more compact than "3, 4, 5" and it survives being copied into a forum post or a spreadsheet cell without becoming an image.

Types of Dice Symbols

The Six Die Face Dice Symbols

⚀ one, ⚁ two, ⚂ three, ⚃ four, ⚄ five, ⚅ six. The pip layouts follow the standard Western die exactly, which means opposite faces of a real die always add to seven — one against six, two against five, three against four. The characters carry the pattern, not the cube, so that relationship is something you apply rather than something you can see in a single glyph.

Emoji and Text Dice Symbols

🎲 is the game die, U+1F3B2, and it is the only coloured character here. Reach for it when the subject is dice — a game night invitation, a randomiser, a caption — and for the six faces when the number matters.

Best Uses for Dice Symbols

Dice Symbols in Game Notes and Results

A column of faces in a spreadsheet sorts and filters like text, which a screenshot of dice does not. For tabletop notes, board-game logs or a running tally, the characters keep the record machine-readable.

Dice Symbols in Names and Bios

One character wide and in your own text colour, ⚄ or ⚅ sits beside a handle without the size jump an emoji brings. Fields that strip emoji keep them.

Dice Symbols as Random or Chance Markers

Where a list needs a "pick one at random" marker, a die face reads instantly and takes no more room than a bullet. ⚁ in front of an option carries the sense of chance that a dot does not.

Dice Symbols Unicode Names and Codes

The names are as plain as they get: ⚀ is U+2680 Die Face-1, running in order to ⚅ at U+2685 Die Face-6, with 🎲 at U+1F3B2 Game Die. Each tile in the grid carries its own code point.

On Windows, hold Alt and type the decimal value on the numeric keypad: 9856 gives ⚀ and the rest follow to 9861 for ⚅. Linux takes Ctrl+Shift+U then 2680 and Enter. The Mac has no numeric route, so the Character Viewer at Ctrl+Cmd+Space is the way in, and the emoji has no Alt code at all.

Frequently Asked Questions About Dice Symbols

Are there symbols for a d20 or other polyhedral dice?

No. Unicode encodes the six faces of a six-sided die and nothing else — there is no d4, d8, d10, d12 or d20 character, and no site can offer one because none exists. For tabletop notation the usual convention is to write it out, as in 2d6 or 1d20, which is plain text and needs no special character.

What is the difference between ⚅ and 🎲?

⚅ is a specific face — six pips — drawn flat in your text colour. 🎲 is the emoji, a whole die in perspective, drawn in colour at emoji size by the platform. Use the face when the number matters and the emoji when the subject does.

Why do the numbers on a die add up to seven?

Because standard dice are made that way: one opposite six, two opposite five, three opposite four. It is a manufacturing convention rather than a rule of the characters, but it holds for almost every die you will meet, and it is why a die shows the same total on any pair of opposite faces.

How do I type a dice symbol without copying it?

Alt+9856 through Alt+9861 on the Windows numeric keypad give the six faces in order. No keyboard has a dice key, and no phone layout carries one, so copying is the practical route everywhere else.

Why does a dice symbol sometimes show in colour?

Some platforms treat the six faces as emoji even though they are text characters, and draw them coloured and enlarged. Adding a variation selector forces the flat text form, but the simplest fix is to check how they land where you intend to use them — the difference is a platform decision, not a property of the character.

Can I show a dice roll animation with these?

No — they are static characters. What you can do is write the result, or cycle through ⚀ ⚁ ⚂ ⚃ ⚄ ⚅ yourself if the platform lets you edit a message repeatedly. Nothing about the characters moves on its own.

Related Collections for Dice Symbols

Card symbols cover the other half of a games table — the four suits and the full playing-card deck. Chess symbols hold the twelve pieces plus a neutral set, and number symbols are where to look for circled and bracketed digits when a plain count is what you need rather than a die face. Everything else is on the symbol collections index.