About Black Right-pointing Small Triangle Black Right Pointing Small Triangle
Black Right-pointing Small Triangle Black Right Pointing Small Triangle is the Unicode character ▸ at codepoint U+25B8 in the Geometric Shapes block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Black Right-pointing Small Triangle Black Right Pointing Small Triangle
To use the Black Right-pointing Small Triangle Black Right Pointing Small Triangle symbol (▸) in HTML, insert the
entity ▸ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ▸ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\25B8';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u25B8' evaluates to ▸. In Python source, write '\u25B8'.
The character encodes to E2 96 B8 as UTF-8 bytes and 25B8 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9656.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.