Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack up-pointing small triangle
Unicode numberU+25B4
CategorySmall Triangles
DescriptionThe Unicode character ▴, or U+25B4, is known as the "Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The symbol is a small, filled (black), equilateral or isosceles triangle that points upwards. It is often used as an arrow to indicate direction or movement towards the top. It may be used in diagrams, charts, or user interfaces for navigation purposes, among others.

Encoding

HTML Entity▴
HTML Entity (hex)▴
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%96%B4
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x96 0xB4
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010110:10110100
UTF-160x25B4
UTF-320x000025B4

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25B4"
CSS Code\25B4
JavaScript"\u25B4"
Perl\x{25B4}
Python 2u"\u25B4"
Python 3\u25B4
Ruby\u{25B4}

Preview

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

Font size:

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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>&#9652;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25B4";
}

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