Black Down-Pointing Triangle
Part of Geometric Shapes
On Windows, hold Alt and type 31 on the numeric keypad to insert black down-pointing triangle.
- Alt code
- Alt+31
- HTML entity
- ▼
- Unicode
- U+25BC
About this symbol
▼, the black down-pointing triangle, is Alt+31, the last of the pictures the IBM PC’s character set gave to the control codes. Web pages often use it to mark a drop-down menu.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Geometric Shapes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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