Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle ▴
Symbol Meaning
This symbol is a short version of the black triangle with the vertex pointing upward. 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 | |
Unicode Block | Geometric Shapes |
Unicode Subblock | Geometric shapes |
Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
Version | 1.1 |
Block | Geometric Shapes |
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
Composition Exclusion | No |
Case change | 25B4 |
Simple case change | 25B4 |
Math | + |
Grapheme_Base | + |
age | 1.1 |
scripts | Common |
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 |