Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack right-pointing triangle
Unicode numberU+25B6
CategoryTriangle
DescriptionThe Unicode character ▶, or U+25B6, is called the "Black Right-Pointing Triangle". It is part of the "Geometric Shapes" block and belongs to the "Symbol, Other" category. This character is often used in media interfaces as a play button, indicating that a video or audio can be started when the icon is clicked or selected. It visually signifies a command to "move forward" or "proceed" due to its right-pointing direction. The black color of the triangle gives it high contrast, making it easily noticeable against a light background.

Encoding

HTML Entity▶
HTML Entity (hex)▶
URL Escape Code%E2%96%B6
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x96 0xB6
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010110:10110110
UTF-160x25B6
UTF-320x000025B6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25B6"
CSS Code\25B6
JavaScript"\u25B6"
Perl\x{25B6}
Python 2u"\u25B6"
Python 3\u25B6
Ruby\u{25B6}

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>&#9654;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25B6";
}

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