Black Right-Pointing Isosceles Right Triangle 🞂
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;
Synonyms
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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 |