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Black up-pointing triangle
U+25B2 · Geometric Shapes
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Meaning and uses
A solid triangle pointing up. It means up, increase or expand, and it marks rising numbers in reports.
Unicode details
▲ is the Unicode character named BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE, code point U+25B2, 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 is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.
| Unicode name | BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+25B2 |
| Block | Geometric Shapes |
| Added | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 96 B2 |
| UTF-16 | 25B2 |
| HTML | ▲ |
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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.
- In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 25B2 and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ▲.
- On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “black up-pointing triangle”.
- On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 25b2, then Space or Enter.
- In HTML, use
▲. In a CSScontentproperty, use"\25B2".