Black Right-pointing Triangle
Part of Geometric Shapes
Black Right-pointing Triangle has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ▶
- Unicode
- U+25B6
About this symbol
The filled triangle pointing right means play on almost every piece of media equipment and app in the world, from cassette recorders to video sites. It is usually explained as pointing the way the tape moves through the machine.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Geometric Shapes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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