White Triangle Containing Small White Triangle

Group: Mathematics

Keywords

math

About this character

White Triangle Containing Small White Triangle belongs to the Mathematics group and is encoded at U+27C1. 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+27C1
Hex: 27C1
Decimal: 10177
HTML: ⟁
CSS: \27C1
JavaScript: \u27C1
Python: \u27C1
UTF-8: E2 9F 81

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.