Black Left-Pointing Pointer

Group: Geometric shapes

Keywords

geometric

About this character

Black Left-Pointing Pointer belongs to the Geometric shapes group and is encoded at U+25C4. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+25C4
Hex: 25C4
Decimal: 9668
HTML: ◄
CSS: \25C4
JavaScript: \u25C4
Python: \u25C4
UTF-8: E2 97 84

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Black Square U+25A0
White Square U+25A1
White Square With Rounded Corners U+25A2
White Square Containing Black Small Square U+25A3
Square With Horizontal Fill U+25A4
Square With Vertical Fill U+25A5
Square With Orthogonal Crosshatch Fill U+25A6
Square With Upper Left To Lower Right Fill U+25A7
Square With Upper Right To Lower Left Fill U+25A8
Square With Diagonal Crosshatch Fill U+25A9
Black Small Square U+25AA
White Small Square U+25AB
Black Rectangle U+25AC
White Rectangle U+25AD
Black Vertical Rectangle U+25AE
White Vertical Rectangle U+25AF
Black Parallelogram U+25B0
White Parallelogram U+25B1
Black Up-Pointing Triangle U+25B2
White Up-Pointing Triangle U+25B3
Black Up-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B4
White Up-Pointing Small Triangle U+25B5
Black Right-Pointing Triangle U+25B6
White Right-Pointing Triangle U+25B7

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.