U+25ED "◭" Up-Pointing Triangle with Left Half Black Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
◭
U+25ED "◭" Up-Pointing Triangle with Left Half Black is a geometric symbol that depicts an upward pointing triangle where only the left half is filled with a solid black color, while the right half remains white or transparent. This character is part of the Geometric Shapes block in Unicode, serving as a visual indicator for direction, asymmetry, or partial states in technical diagrams, user interfaces, or typesetting. It can be used to represent concepts such as a half-filled progress indicator, a directional arrow variant, or a binary state in data visualization, and it is commonly rendered in plain text without the need for specialized graphics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+25ED |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Up-Pointing Triangle with Left Half Black |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Up Pointing Triangle with Left Half Black |
| Block | Geometric Shapes |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ◭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ◭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x97 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x25ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000025ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u25ed |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |