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U+25B8 · BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE

Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle

  • CodepointU+25B8
  • NameBLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE
  • Decimal9656
  • 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 widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+25B8 (▸) is BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL 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).

How to type ▸

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 96 B83 bytes
UTF-1625B81 code unit
UTF-32000025B84 bytes
HTML named▸named character reference
HTML named▸named character reference
HTML decimal▸
HTML hex▸
CSS\25B8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u25B8
JSON\u25B8
Python\u25B8
Python\N{BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE}by name
Java / C#\u25B8
C / C++\u25B8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25B8}
Go\u25B8
Ruby\u25B8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9656)
URL-encoded%E2%96%B8percent-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+25B6▶Black Right-Pointing Triangle U+25BA►Black Right-Pointing Pointer
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
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+25B6▶Black Right-Pointing Triangle U+25B7▷White Right-Pointing 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 U+25BD▽White Down-Pointing Triangle U+25BE▾Black Down-Pointing Small Triangle