U+25C0 Black Left-Pointing Triangle
U+25C0 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+25C0 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 CLDR project calls this character “reverse button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arrow, button, left, reverse, 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:
Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9664 |
| UTF-8 | E2 97 80 |
| UTF-16 | 25 C0 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 25 C0 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%97%80 |
| HTML hex reference | ◀ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â—€ |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A2 B8 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A3 A4 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A3 A4 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A2 B8 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 9D 32 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 43 22 38 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 23 24 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 23 24 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 22 38 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 B8 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 82 43 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 82 43 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni25C0 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni25C0 |
| Adobe Glyph List | blackleftpointingtriangle |
| digraph | PL |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE | |
| BLACK LEFT POINTING TRIANGLE | |
| Geometric Shapes | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Black Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| U |