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Technical information
| Symbol | ▸ | |
| Name | Black right-pointing small triangle | |
| Unicode number | U+25B8 | |
| Category | Small Triangles | |
| Description | The Unicode character "▸", or U+25B8, is known as the "Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle". It falls under the "Geometric Shapes" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a small, filled-in triangle that points to the right. It's typically used in a variety of contexts, including as a bullet point for lists, as a directional symbol, or as a pointer in user interfaces, to indicate a submenu or the next item. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ▸ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ▸ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ▸ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%96%B8 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x96 0xB8 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010110:10111000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x25B8 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000025B8 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u25B8" | |
| CSS Code | \25B8 | |
| JavaScript | "\u25B8" | |
| Perl | \x{25B8} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u25B8" | |
| Python 3 | \u25B8 | |
| Ruby | \u{25B8} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ▸ in sentence and in bold like this ▸ and in italic like this ▸.
input-group
Font size:
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>▸</span>
span {
content: "\25B8";
}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