White Up-Pointing Small Triangle ▵
Symbol Meaning
This symbol is a short version of the △ . It is used in texting, IQ tests, pictograms, and puzzles.
The small white triangle with the vertex pointing upward can be placed at the beginning of a line, indicating the start of a bullet point in a list.
As for textual graphics, this symbol can be inserted into some combination to decorate a web page, username, or page header.
IQ tests use various shapes arranged in specific patterns or sequences. These shapes can be complex, made of two simple ones. The small white triangle can be inserted into a larger shape to create a more complex object.
Finally, this symbol is used in pictograms, rebuses, and riddles.
The symbol “White 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.
Synonyms
geometry, shape, delta, bullet list.
| Unicode Name | White 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 | 25B5 |
| Simple case change | 25B5 |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_Math | + |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 96 B5 | 226 150 181 | 14849717 | 11100010 10010110 10110101 |
| UTF-16BE | 25 B5 | 37 181 | 9653 | 00100101 10110101 |
| UTF-16LE | B5 25 | 181 37 | 46373 | 10110101 00100101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 25 B5 | 0 0 37 181 | 9653 | 00000000 00000000 00100101 10110101 |
| UTF-32LE | B5 25 00 00 | 181 37 0 0 | 3039100928 | 10110101 00100101 00000000 00000000 |
