What ▹ means
▹ is the white right-pointing small triangle. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Geometric Shapes block; this site shelves it under Stars & signs.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
▹ is a single code point, U+25B9. In HTML that is ▹, and in CSS \25B9.
Don't confuse it with
4▵▿◃△
White Up-Pointing Small Triangle
shares “pointing”, “small”, “triangle”, “white”
White Down-Pointing Small Triangle
shares “pointing”, “small”, “triangle”, “white”
White Left-Pointing Small Triangle
shares “pointing”, “small”, “triangle”, “white”
White Up-Pointing Triangle
shares “pointing”, “triangle”, “white”
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.
How to type ▹
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 25B9, then Alt+X 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 “white right-pointing small triangle”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 25b9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
▹CSS
\25B9Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
▹
HTML hex
▹
CSS content
content: "\25B9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%96%B9
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.