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Technical information

Symbol▷
NameWhite right-pointing triangle
Unicode numberU+25B7
CategoryTriangle
DescriptionThe Unicode character ▷, or U+25B7, is known as the "White Right-Pointing Triangle". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is represented as an equilateral or isosceles triangle that is filled with white color and is pointing to the right. In its various uses, this symbol can represent a direction, indicate continuation, or be used as a bullet point in certain styles of lists. It is also commonly used in media players as the "play" button. The specific usage and interpretation can depend on the context.

Encoding

HTML Entity▷
HTML Entity (hex)▷
URL Escape Code%E2%96%B7
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x96 0xB7
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010110:10110111
UTF-160x25B7
UTF-320x000025B7

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25B7"
CSS Code\25B7
JavaScript"\u25B7"
Perl\x{25B7}
Python 2u"\u25B7"
Python 3\u25B7
Ruby\u{25B7}

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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12px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9655;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25B7";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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

References