U+25B8 Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle
U+25B8 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. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+25B8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “filled right-pointing small triangle” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: filled, right-pointing, small, triangle.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9656 |
| UTF-8 | E2 96 B8 |
| UTF-16 | 25 B8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 25 B8 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%96%B8 |
| HTML hex reference | ▸ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â–¸ |
| HTML named entity | ▸ |
| HTML named entity | ▸ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 9C 36 |
| LATEX | \blacktriangleright |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE | |
| BLACK RIGHT POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE | |
| Geometric Shapes | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| U |