Black Left-Pointing Small Triangle

Group: Geometric shapes

Keywords

geometric

About this character

Black Left-Pointing Small Triangle belongs to the Geometric shapes group and is encoded at U+25C2. 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+25C2
Hex: 25C2
Decimal: 9666
HTML: ◂
CSS: \25C2
JavaScript: \u25C2
Python: \u25C2
UTF-8: E2 97 82

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

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.