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Glyph for U+23EC
Source: Noto Emoji

U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle

U+23EC was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block U+2300 to U+23FF Miscellaneous Technical in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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, double, down.

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 Glyph for U+FE0E 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, which 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
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 ⏬

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 6.0 (2010)
Unicode Name (na) BLACK DOWN-POINTING DOUBLE TRIANGLE
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Miscellaneous Technical
General Category (gc) Other Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+23EC Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U