Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle ▴

U+25B4
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Symbol Meaning

This symbol is a short version of the . It is often applied in chatting, textual graphics, IQ tests, pictograms, and puzzles.

In writing, including text messages, the small black triangle with the vertex pointing upward can be placed at the beginning of a line and used as a bullet point marker in a list.

You can use this symbol to create drawings or other compositions to enhance the appearance of text or a post on a web page. It can be used to complement a username or a web page header.

IQ tests also have different variations of this symbol, including complex ones made of two separate elements. The small black triangle can be placed inside a larger white square or circle. The resulting shape is then placed in a series with a specific sequence.

Finally, the small black triangle with the vertex pointing upward can be used to create pictograms or puzzles.

The symbol “Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle” is included in the “Geometric shapes” subblock of the “Geometric Shapes” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

playstation, geometry, shape, delta, bullet list.

Unicode Name Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Geometric Shapes
Unicode Subblock Geometric shapes
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 25B4
Simple case change 25B4
Math +
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Other_Math +
Pattern_Syntax +
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 96 B4 226 150 180 14849716 11100010 10010110 10110100
UTF-16BE 25 B4 37 180 9652 00100101 10110100
UTF-16LE B4 25 180 37 46117 10110100 00100101
UTF-32BE 00 00 25 B4 0 0 37 180 9652 00000000 00000000 00100101 10110100
UTF-32LE B4 25 00 00 180 37 0 0 3022323712 10110100 00100101 00000000 00000000

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