Black Right-Pointing Isosceles Right Triangle 🞂

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U+1F782
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Symbol Meaning

An isosceles triangle pointing one vertex to the right denotes the audio or video play button.

At the beginning of the XX century, the keys of household appliances were signed with words. This is cumbersome and creates a dependency on the language. А set of universal icons was needed. There was no standardization yet, so each manufacturer drew its own characters. This continued until the mid-60s, when several major manufacturers began to label their tape recorders in a way we know today. It's hard to say who was the first. According to one version, a set of icons was invented at the Philips design bureau. On the other hand, Sony laid the foundation.

And in 1973, the German Institute for Standardization decided to use geometric shapes to indicate buttons on sound-reproducing devices. Thus, a triangle similar to the arrowhead, survived to this day as a play icon.

The symbol “Black Right-Pointing Isosceles Right Triangle” is included in the “Isosceles right triangles” subblock of the “Geometric Shapes Extended” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 7.0 in 2014.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

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Unicode Name Black Right-Pointing Isosceles Right Triangle
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes Extended
Unicode Subblock Isosceles right triangles
Unicode Version 7.0 (2014)
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 1F782
Simple case change 1F782
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 F0 9F 9E 82 240 159 158 130 4036992642 11110000 10011111 10011110 10000010
UTF-16BE D8 3D DF 82 216 61 223 130 3627933570 11011000 00111101 11011111 10000010
UTF-16LE 3D D8 82 DF 61 216 130 223 1037599455 00111101 11011000 10000010 11011111
UTF-32BE 00 01 F7 82 0 1 247 130 128898 00000000 00000001 11110111 10000010
UTF-32LE 82 F7 01 00 130 247 1 0 2197225728 10000010 11110111 00000001 00000000

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