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Technical information
| Symbol | ▿ | |
| Name | White down-pointing small triangle | |
| Unicode number | U+25BF | |
| Category | Small Triangles | |
| Description | The Unicode character ▿, or U+25BF, is known as the "White Down-Pointing Small Triangle". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character represents a small triangle that is pointing downwards, and it is unfilled or white in appearance. It's often used as a visual indicator, such as a dropdown menu icon in software interfaces, or to denote a downward direction or movement in various contexts. The specific visual representation of this character can vary depending on the system or application in which it's used. The appearance can also slightly differ based on the font and typography used. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ▿ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ▿ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ▿ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%96%BF | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x96 0xBF | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010110:10111111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x25BF | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000025BF |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u25BF" | |
| CSS Code | \25BF | |
| JavaScript | "\u25BF" | |
| Perl | \x{25BF} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u25BF" | |
| Python 3 | \u25BF | |
| Ruby | \u{25BF} |
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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12px
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20px
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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
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disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>▿</span>
span {
content: "\25BF";
}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