U+25B8 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE

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Decimal / Nº
9656
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+25B8, officially named BLACK RIGHT-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Geometric Shapes block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as BLACK RIGHT POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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9656 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 96 B8 Copied!
UTF-16 25 B8 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 B8 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%96%B8 Copied!
HTML hex reference ▸ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'25B8' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u25B8 Copied!
C and C++ \u25b8 Copied!
C# \u25b8 Copied!
CSS \0025B8 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9656) Copied!
Go \u25b8 Copied!
JavaScript \u25B8 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{25b8} Copied!
JSON \u25B8 Copied!
Java \u25B8 Copied!
Lua \u{25B8} Copied!
Matlab char(9656) Copied!
Perl \x{25B8} Copied!
PHP \u{25b8} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\25B8' Copied!
PowerShell `u{25B8} Copied!
Python \u25b8 Copied!
Ruby \u{25b8} Copied!
Rust \u{25b8} Copied!