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U+25BC · BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE

Black Down-Pointing Triangle

  • CodepointU+25BC
  • NameBLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
  • Decimal9660
  • 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+25BC (▼) is BLACK DOWN-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 BC3 bytes
UTF-1625BC1 code unit
UTF-32000025BC4 bytes
HTML decimal▼
HTML hex▼
CSS\25BCin content: "…"
JavaScript\u25BC
JSON\u25BC
Python\u25BC
Python\N{BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE}by name
Java / C#\u25BC
C / C++\u25BCuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25BC}
Go\u25BC
Ruby\u25BC
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9660)
URL-encoded%E2%96%BCpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
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 U+25BA►Black Right-Pointing Pointer U+25BB▻White Right-Pointing Pointer U+25BD▽White Down-Pointing Triangle U+25BE▾Black Down-Pointing Small Triangle U+25BF▿White Down-Pointing Small Triangle U+25C0◀Black Left-Pointing Triangle U+25C1◁White Left-Pointing Triangle U+25C2◂Black Left-Pointing Small Triangle