U+25B8 Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle
U+25B8 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+25B8 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “filled right-pointing small triangle” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, 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 | ▸ |
| 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 | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| 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 |