Black Medium Right-Pointing Triangle Centred

Group: More symbols

Keywords

symbols-extra

About this character

Black Medium Right-Pointing Triangle Centred belongs to the More symbols group and is encoded at U+2BC8. 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+2BC8
Hex: 2BC8
Decimal: 11208
HTML: ⯈
CSS: \2BC8
JavaScript: \u2BC8
Python: \u2BC8
UTF-8: E2 AF 88

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.