Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle ▸
Symbol Meaning
This symbol is a smaller version of the black triangle with the vertex pointing to the right. It is used in messaging, IQ tests, puzzles, and pictograms.
In texting, messaging, and posting this symbol is used to indicate the start of a bullet point in a bulleted list. The same function is performed in text drawings on web pages.
As for IQ tests, more complex symbols are used. Sometimes they consist of larger and smaller shapes. The smaller black triangle can be inserted into a larger white square, circle, or other shape.
Finally, this shape can often be seen in pictograms and puzzles.
The symbol “Black Right-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
play, next, geometry, shape.
| Unicode Name | Black Right-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 | 25B8 |
| Simple case change | 25B8 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 96 B8 | 226 150 184 | 14849720 | 11100010 10010110 10111000 |
| UTF-16BE | 25 B8 | 37 184 | 9656 | 00100101 10111000 |
| UTF-16LE | B8 25 | 184 37 | 47141 | 10111000 00100101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 25 B8 | 0 0 37 184 | 9656 | 00000000 00000000 00100101 10111000 |
| UTF-32LE | B8 25 00 00 | 184 37 0 0 | 3089432576 | 10111000 00100101 00000000 00000000 |
