What ⧎ means
Read the shape from top to bottom: the upper triangle points right, and the lower triangle points left. Their opposing directions are part of the design; the name does not tell you to add, subtract or compare anything.
The font supplies the drawing. Its proportions can vary, and a font without this character may show a missing-character box. If that happens, try a font that supports mathematical symbols.
Part of the collection
Worth knowing
- Its text shortcut rtriltri appears in the 1998 MathML recommendation for displaying mathematics and in a 2003 table of standardized character names.
Questions people ask
1Why does ⧎ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ⧎
- Search it as
- opposing triangles · stacked triangles · triangle symbol · rtriltri
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⧎CSS
\29CEWord on Windows
Type 29CE, select those four characters, then press AltX to turn them into ⧎.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⧎
HTML hex
⧎
CSS content
content: "\29CE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A7%8E
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.