What 🔽 means
The surrounding words tell you which kind of down. Beside a price or score, it marks a drop. At the end of a line like “details” or “link”, it points toward what follows. The triangle resembles a dropdown control, but sending it does not create a button anyone can press.
Neutral and functional: it points rather than expresses a feeling.
Add words if “look below” could be mistaken for “decrease.”
Don't confuse it with
3⬇️🔻▼
Down Arrow
An arrow with a shaft; 🔽 is a compact triangle.
Red Triangle Pointed Down
A red downward triangle filed among geometric shapes, not media-control buttons; it has no button frame.
Black Down-Pointing Triangle
A plain text triangle that takes the colour and size of the surrounding text; 🔽 normally appears as a colourful emoji.
Worth knowing
- Before Unicode added it in 2010, a matching symbol already existed in the emoji set of KDDI, a Japanese mobile carrier.
Questions people ask
1Why is 🔽 a different color on my phone?
Different artwork. Emoji designs vary between platforms; the color does not give 🔽 a separate meaning.
How to type 🔽
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “downwards button”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “downwards button”.
Chat apps
:arrow_down_small:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🔽Windows
As of 2026, press Windows + . (period) to open the emoji panel, then search “down”.
Mac
As of 2026, press Control-Command-Space to open Emoji & Symbols, then search “down”.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🔽
HTML hex
🔽
CSS content
content: "\1F53D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%94%BD
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.