Black Right-Pointing Pointer
Part of Geometric Shapes
On Windows, hold Alt and type 16 on the numeric keypad to insert black right-pointing pointer.
- Alt code
- Alt+16
- HTML entity
- ►
- Unicode
- U+25BA
About this symbol
►, the black right-pointing pointer, is Alt+16 from the IBM PC’s character set, code page 437, which gave pictures to the control codes 1 to 31. It and ◄, Alt+17, were widely used in DOS programs as arrows in menus.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Geometric Shapes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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