U+25BC

BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE

So — Other Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
9660

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E2 96 BC 226 150 188 3
UTF-16 LE BC 25 188 37 2
UTF-16 BE 25 BC 37 188 2
UTF-32 LE BC 25 00 00 188 37 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 25 BC 0 0 37 188 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS 81 A5 129 165 2
EUC-JP A2 A7 162 167 2
GBK A8 8B 168 139 2
Big5 A1 BF 161 191 2

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
▼
▼
\25BC
\u25BC
%E2%96%BC
\u25bc
9660

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
96
·
Byte 3
1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0
BC
UTF-8: E2 96 BC · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+25BC

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ON — Other Neutral

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