Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack up-pointing triangle
Unicode numberU+25B2
CategoryTriangle
DescriptionThe Unicode character ▲, or U+25B2, is known as the "Black Up-Pointing Triangle". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block, which includes a variety of shapes utilized in various contexts, from mathematical notation to symbolic representations. This character falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. Visually, it appears as an equilateral or isosceles triangle filled in with black and pointed upward. The black up-pointing triangle is used in a variety of contexts to denote upward motion or increase. It can symbolize a direction, an indicator of a position, or an instruction to move up in lists or forms. It can also be used to denote the 'play' button in media players, among other uses.

Encoding

HTML Entity▲
HTML Entity (hex)▲
URL Escape Code%E2%96%B2
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x96 0xB2
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010110:10110010
UTF-160x25B2
UTF-320x000025B2

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25B2"
CSS Code\25B2
JavaScript"\u25B2"
Perl\x{25B2}
Python 2u"\u25B2"
Python 3\u25B2
Ruby\u{25B2}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ▲ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
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28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9650;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25B2";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References