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🔻Red Triangle Pointed Down Emoji
Unicode added 🔻 red triangle pointed down in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Symbols → Shapes & Colors. Its codepoint is U+1F53B, and it is tagged down, geometric and pointed.
What 🔻 red triangle pointed down means
Coloured circles, squares, diamonds and triangles used as bullets, swatches, progress bars and rating scales, since they line up neatly in a way faces never do. Most of the colours are recent: the orange, yellow, green, purple and brown circles and squares only arrived with Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Wordle later made the green, yellow and black squares instantly readable.
Unicode tags this one down, geometric and pointed and files it under Symbols → Shapes & Colors.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F53B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔻 | |
| HTML decimal | 🔻 | |
| CSS | \1F53B | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F53B} | |
| Python | \U0001F53B | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD3B | |
| Rust | \u{1f53b} | |
| Swift | \u{1F53B} | |
| PHP | \u{1F53B} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%BB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 BB | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD3B | |
| Base64 | 8J+Uuw== | |
| Decimal | 128315 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🔻
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “red triangle pointed down”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “down”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f53band Enter. - HTML — paste
🔻.
How 🔻 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🔻Apple
- 🔻Segoe
- 🔻Noto
- 🔻System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🔻 red triangle pointed down emoji mean?+
🔻 is the red triangle pointed down emoji, tagged down, geometric and pointed. Coloured circles, squares, diamonds and triangles used as bullets, swatches, progress bars and rating scales, since they line up neatly in a way faces never do. Most of the colours are recent: the orange, yellow, green, purple and brown circles and squares only arrived with Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Wordle later made the green, yellow and black squares instantly readable.
What is the Unicode code for 🔻?+
red triangle pointed down is U+1F53B. In HTML that is 🔻, in CSS \1F53B, and in JavaScript \u{1F53B}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔻 emoji added?+
red triangle pointed down got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
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Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
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