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U+25BD · WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE

White Down-Pointing Triangle

  • CodepointU+25BD
  • NameWHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
  • Decimal9661
  • 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+25BD (▽) is WHITE 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 BD3 bytes
UTF-1625BD1 code unit
UTF-32000025BD4 bytes
HTML named▽named character reference
HTML named▽named character reference
HTML decimal▽
HTML hex▽
CSS\25BDin content: "…"
JavaScript\u25BD
JSON\u25BD
Python\u25BD
Python\N{WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE}by name
Java / C#\u25BD
C / C++\u25BDuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25BD}
Go\u25BD
Ruby\u25BD
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9661)
URL-encoded%E2%96%BDpercent-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.

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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
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 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 U+25C3◃White Left-Pointing Small Triangle