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U+25B3 · WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE

White Up-Pointing Triangle

  • CodepointU+25B3
  • NameWHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE
  • Decimal9651
  • BlockGeometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+25B3 (△) is WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE, a symbol in the Geometric Shapes block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type △

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 96 B33 bytes
UTF-1625B31 code unit
UTF-32000025B34 bytes
HTML named△named character reference
HTML named△named character reference
HTML decimal△
HTML hex△
CSS\25B3in content: "…"
JavaScript\u25B3
JSON\u25B3
Python\u25B3
Python\N{WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE}by name
Java / C#\u25B3
C / C++\u25B3universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25B3}
Go\u25B3
Ruby\u25B3
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9651)
URL-encoded%E2%96%B3percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
U+25AD▭White Rectangle U+25AE▮Black Vertical Rectangle U+25AF▯White Vertical Rectangle U+25B0▰Black Parallelogram U+25B1▱White Parallelogram U+25B2▲Black Up-Pointing Triangle U+25B4▴Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B5▵White Up-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B6▶Black Right-Pointing Triangle U+25B7▷White Right-Pointing Triangle U+25B8▸Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B9▹White Right-Pointing Small Triangle