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U+25B6 · BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE

Black Right-Pointing Triangle

  • CodepointU+25B6
  • NameBLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE
  • Emoji nameplay button
  • Decimal9654
  • 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+25B6 (▶) is BLACK RIGHT-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 emoji name (CLDR short name) is “play button”, in the Symbols group, subgroup av-symbol. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+25B6 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

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 B63 bytes
UTF-1625B61 code unit
UTF-32000025B64 bytes
HTML decimal▶
HTML hex▶
CSS\25B6in content: "…"
JavaScript\u25B6
JSON\u25B6
Python\u25B6
Python\N{BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE}by name
Java / C#\u25B6
C / C++\u25B6universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25B6}
Go\u25B6
Ruby\u25B6
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9654)
URL-encoded%E2%96%B6percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+25B8▸Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle U+25BA►Black Right-Pointing Pointer
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
U+25B0▰Black Parallelogram U+25B1▱White Parallelogram U+25B2▲Black Up-Pointing Triangle U+25B3△White Up-Pointing Triangle U+25B4▴Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B5▵White Up-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B7▷White Right-Pointing Triangle U+25B8▸Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B9▹White Right-Pointing Small Triangle U+25BA►Black Right-Pointing Pointer U+25BB▻White Right-Pointing Pointer U+25BC▼Black Down-Pointing Triangle