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Technical information
| Symbol | ◁ | |
| Name | White left-pointing triangle | |
| Unicode number | U+25C1 | |
| Category | Triangle | |
| Description | The Unicode character ◁, or U+25C1, is known as the "White Left-Pointing Triangle". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a geometric shape representing a triangle that is filled with white color and points to the left. It can be used in a wide variety of contexts, including as an indicator for "previous" in media controls, as an arrow in diagrams, or as a decorative bullet point. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ◁ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ◁ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%97%81 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x97 0x81 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010111:10000001 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x25C1 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000025C1 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u25C1" | |
| CSS Code | \25C1 | |
| JavaScript | "\u25C1" | |
| Perl | \x{25C1} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u25C1" | |
| Python 3 | \u25C1 | |
| Ruby | \u{25C1} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ◁ in sentence and in bold like this ◁ and in italic like this ◁.
input-group
Font size:
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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
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disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>◁</span>
span {
content: "\25C1";
}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