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U+25C1 · WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE

White Left-Pointing Triangle

  • CodepointU+25C1
  • NameWHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE
  • Decimal9665
  • BlockGeometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySm — Math Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+25C1 (◁) is WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE, a mathematical 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 97 813 bytes
UTF-1625C11 code unit
UTF-32000025C14 bytes
HTML decimal◁
HTML hex◁
CSS\25C1in content: "…"
JavaScript\u25C1
JSON\u25C1
Python\u25C1
Python\N{WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE}by name
Java / C#\u25C1
C / C++\u25C1universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25C1}
Go\u25C1
Ruby\u25C1
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9665)
URL-encoded%E2%97%81percent-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+22B2⊲Normal Subgroup of
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
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 U+25BF▿White Down-Pointing Small Triangle U+25C0◀Black Left-Pointing Triangle U+25C2◂Black Left-Pointing Small Triangle U+25C3◃White Left-Pointing Small Triangle U+25C4◄Black Left-Pointing Pointer U+25C5◅White Left-Pointing Pointer U+25C6◆Black Diamond U+25C7◇White Diamond