White Down-pointing Triangle White Down Pointing Triangle is the Unicode character ▽ at codepoint U+25BD in the Geometric Shapes block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use White Down-pointing Triangle White Down Pointing Triangle
To use the White Down-pointing Triangle White Down Pointing 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: '\25BD';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u25BD' evaluates to ▽. In Python source, write '\u25BD'.
The character encodes to E2 96 BD as UTF-8 bytes and 25BD as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9661.
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.