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black upper right triangle

Black Upper Right Triangle

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No standard chat meaning is established for ◥ as of 2026; what ◥ means in chat depends on the sender's context. This upper-right corner triangle can serve as a graphic piece; if it arrives alone, ask the sender what they meant.

Text symbol

What ◥ means

is the medium-shade counterpart. The Unicode 18 terminal graphics chart for legacy computing pairs it with ◥, showing the same upper-right triangular area with medium shading.

Part of the collection

Don't confuse it with

1

Combination ideas

3
Terminal loading spinner, a corner turning round
Two corners forming a downward point
Sawtooth stripe border, like hazard tape

Questions people ask

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Why does ◥ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

Collections with ◥

2

How to type or find ◥

Search it as
corner triangle · triangle symbol · terminal graphics · legacy computing
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 25E5, then AltX to get ◥.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “black upper right triangle”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 25e5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
◥
CSS
\25E5
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
◥
HTML hex
◥
CSS content
content: "\25E5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%97%A5
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Shapes & colours597 symbols

Stars & signs805 symbols