▴ is the Unicode character BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE, code point U+25B4 (decimal 9652) in the Geometric Shapes block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ▴, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 96 B4.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+25B4 |
| Decimal | 9652 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 96 B4 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 25B4 |
| UTF-32 | 000025B4 |
| HTML decimal | ▴ |
| HTML hex | ▴ |
| HTML named | ▴ ▴ |
| CSS | \25B4 |
| JavaScript | \u25B4 |
| JSON | \u25B4 |
| Python | \u25B4 |
| Python by name | \N{BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE} |
| Java, C# | \u25B4 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{25B4} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u25B4 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%96%B4 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE |
| Code point | U+25B4 (decimal 9652) |
| Block | Geometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF) |
| General category | So: Other symbol |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Geometric Shapes
- ▬ U+25AC Black Rectangle
- ▭ U+25AD White Rectangle
- ▮ U+25AE Black Vertical Rectangle
- ▯ U+25AF White Vertical Rectangle
- ▰ U+25B0 Black Parallelogram
- ▱ U+25B1 White Parallelogram
- ▲ U+25B2 Black Up-Pointing Triangle
- △ U+25B3 White Up-Pointing Triangle
- ▵ U+25B5 White Up-Pointing Small Triangle
- ▶ U+25B6 Play button
- ▷ U+25B7 White Right-Pointing Triangle
- ▸ U+25B8 Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle
- ▹ U+25B9 White Right-Pointing Small Triangle
- ► U+25BA Black Right-Pointing Pointer
- ▻ U+25BB White Right-Pointing Pointer
- ▼ U+25BC Black Down-Pointing Triangle
All 96 characters: Geometric Shapes.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ▴?
- Use the named entity ▴, or ▴ (decimal) or ▴ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+25B4?
- E2 96 B4 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%96%B4.
- How do I write U+25B4 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u25B4. Python: \u25B4.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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