U+25B6 Black Right-Pointing Triangle
U+25B6 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Geometric Shapes in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+25B6 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.
The CLDR project calls this character “play button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, play, right, triangle.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ▶️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In digital electronics, analogue electronics and entertainment, the user interface may include media controls, transport controls or player controls, to enact and change or adjust the process of video playback, audio playback, and alike. These controls are commonly depicted as widely known symbols found in a multitude of products, exemplifying what is known as dominant design.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9654 |
| UTF-8 | E2 96 B6 |
| UTF-16 | 25 B6 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 25 B6 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%96%B6 |
| HTML hex reference | ▶ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â–¶ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A2 BA |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni25B6 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni25B6 |
| Adobe Glyph List | blackrightpointingtriangle |
| digraph | PR |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE | |
| BLACK RIGHT POINTING TRIANGLE | |
| Geometric Shapes | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Black Right-Pointing Triangle | |
| U |