U+1F53B "🔻" Down-Pointing Red Triangle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F53B "🔻" Down-Pointing Red Triangle is part of the Geometric Shapes Extended block and is officially named the Down-Pointing Red Triangle, often rendered as a solid, inverted red triangle in digital media. It is commonly used in user interfaces as a visual indicator for collapse, decrease, or downward direction, such as in expandable menus or sorting options, and can also serve as a warning or attention signal in contexts like traffic safety or gaming. In social media and text communication, it may be employed to draw focus downward in a message or to represent a negative trend or decline.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F53B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Down-Pointing Red Triangle |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🔻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🔻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F53B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd3b |