U+25C0 BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE

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Decimal / Nº
9664
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+25C0, officially named BLACK LEFT-POINTING 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 LEFT POINTING 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 ambiguous 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.

As an officially designated emoji, this character can be displayed in colorful graphical formats on supported platforms. To explicitly request the colorful emoji presentation rather than a standard monochrome text symbol, developers can append the Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F) directly after the character.

Representations & Encodings

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9664 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 97 80 Copied!
UTF-16 25 C0 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 25 C0 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%97%80 Copied!
HTML hex reference ◀ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'25C0' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u25C0 Copied!
C and C++ \u25c0 Copied!
C# \u25c0 Copied!
CSS \0025C0 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9664) Copied!
Go \u25c0 Copied!
JavaScript \u25C0 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{25c0} Copied!
JSON \u25C0 Copied!
Java \u25C0 Copied!
Lua \u{25C0} Copied!
Matlab char(9664) Copied!
Perl \x{25C0} Copied!
PHP \u{25c0} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\25C0' Copied!
PowerShell `u{25C0} Copied!
Python \u25c0 Copied!
Ruby \u{25c0} Copied!
Rust \u{25c0} Copied!