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
1Combination ideas
3Terminal loading spinner, a corner turning round
Two corners forming a downward point
Sawtooth stripe border, like hazard tape
Questions people ask
1Why 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 ◥
2How 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)
Windows
HTML
◥CSS
\25E5Codes 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
1
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.






