U+25C1 White Left-Pointing Triangle
U+25C1 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 Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as z notation domain restriction.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous 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+25C1 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) 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 “hollow left-pointing triangle” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: hollow left-pointing 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 | 9665 |
| UTF-8 | E2 97 81 |
| UTF-16 | 25 C1 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 25 C1 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%97%81 |
| HTML hex reference | ◁ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â— |
| alias | z notation domain restriction |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A2 B7 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni25C1 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni25C1 |
| Adobe Glyph List | whiteleftpointingtriangle |
| digraph | Tl |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE | |
| WHITE LEFT POINTING TRIANGLE | |
| Geometric Shapes | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| White Left-Pointing Triangle | |
| U |