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Technical information

Symbol▶
NameBlack right-pointing triangle
Unicode numberU+25B6
CategoryTriangle
DescriptionThe Unicode character ▶, or U+25B6, is called the "Black Right-Pointing Triangle". It is part of the "Geometric Shapes" block and belongs to the "Symbol, Other" category. This character is often used in media interfaces as a play button, indicating that a video or audio can be started when the icon is clicked or selected. It visually signifies a command to "move forward" or "proceed" due to its right-pointing direction. The black color of the triangle gives it high contrast, making it easily noticeable against a light background.

Encoding

HTML Entity▶
HTML Entity (hex)▶
URL Escape Code%E2%96%B6
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x96 0xB6
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010110:10110110
UTF-160x25B6
UTF-320x000025B6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25B6"
CSS Code\25B6
JavaScript"\u25B6"
Perl\x{25B6}
Python 2u"\u25B6"
Python 3\u25B6
Ruby\u{25B6}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ▶ in sentence and in bold like this ▶ and in italic like this ▶.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9654;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25B6";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References