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Technical information
| Symbol | ► | |
| Name | Black right-pointing pointer | |
| Unicode number | U+25BA | |
| Category | Triangle | |
| Description | The Unicode character ►, or U+25BA, is named "Black Right-Pointing Pointer". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block, which consists of common geometric shapes. This character is categorized under "Symbol, Other". Visually, it represents a filled triangle pointing to the right. The term "black" in its name refers to the filled nature of the symbol, not its color, which can vary depending on the text color in use. This right-pointing triangle is often used in user interfaces to denote direction, indicate the next step in a sequence, or serve as a play button in multimedia applications. The specific meaning and function of this symbol can vary widely depending on its context. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ► | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ► | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%96%BA | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x96 0xBA | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010110:10111010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x25BA | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000025BA |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u25BA" | |
| CSS Code | \25BA | |
| JavaScript | "\u25BA" | |
| Perl | \x{25BA} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u25BA" | |
| Python 3 | \u25BA | |
| Ruby | \u{25BA} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ► in sentence and in bold like this ► and in italic like this ►.
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Font size:
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
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span {
content: "\25BA";
}The symbol in different fonts
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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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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sans-serif
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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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