U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
U+23EC was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Technical 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 East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+23EC forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “fast down button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, button, double, down, fast.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: ⏬︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF. It contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions. For example:
- Symbol ⌂ (HTML hexadecimal code is ⌂) represents a house or a home.
- Symbol ⌘ (⌘) is a "place of interest" sign. It may be used to represent the Command key on a Mac keyboard.
- Symbol ⌚ (⌚) is a watch (or clock).
- Symbol ⏏ (⏏) is the "Eject" button symbol found on electronic equipment.
- Symbol ⏚ (⏚) is the "Earth Ground" symbol found on electrical or electronic manual, tag and equipment.
It also includes most of the uncommon symbols used by the APL programming language.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9196 |
| UTF-8 | E2 8F AC |
| UTF-16 | 23 EC |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 23 EC |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%8F%AC |
| HTML hex reference | ⏬ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⬠|
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 81 30 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 6.0 (2010) | |
| BLACK DOWN-POINTING DOUBLE TRIANGLE | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Technical | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle | |
| U |