Black right-pointing triangle

Meaning and uses

A solid triangle pointing right, known everywhere as the play button. In text it marks a video link or works as a strong bullet, and some phones show it as a play emoji.

Unicode details

▶ is the Unicode character named BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE, code point U+25B6, in the Geometric Shapes block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “play button”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ▶

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “play button”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “play button”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 25b6, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ▶. In a CSS content property, use "\25B6".