U+23F6 · Other symbol
Black Medium Up-Pointing Triangle Symbol ⏶
⏶ is black medium up-pointing triangle, U+23F6. Unicode also records it as “increase”. It was added in Unicode 7.0, and Unicode files it under Other symbol.
Also known as
- increase
What Unicode says about ⏶
preferred to 25B2 black up-pointing triangle
— annotation from the Unicode Standard, NamesList.txt
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+23F6 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⏶ | |
| HTML decimal | ⏶ | |
| CSS | \23F6 | |
| JavaScript | \u{23F6} | |
| Python | \U000023F6 | |
| Java / C# | \u23F6 | |
| Rust | \u{23f6} | |
| Swift | \u{23F6} | |
| PHP | \u{23F6} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%8F%B6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 8F B6 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 23F6 | |
| Base64 | 4o+2 | |
| Decimal | 9206 | |
| Category | Other symbol (So) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 | |
Will ⏶ survive being pasted?
- Normalisation. Yes. ⏶ is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
- Legacy encodings. ⏶ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
- Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.
Unicode cross-references
The standard points readers of ⏶ at these characters — usually because they look alike, or because one is the correct choice where the other is often used by mistake.
Other triangle characters
Unicode names 24 characters ending in “triangle”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.
Nearby in Miscellaneous Technical
Symbols from engineering, electronics and computing: APL operators, keyboard keys, dentistry and cartography marks. The ⌘ ⌥ ⇧ ⏎ keys people paste into shortcut documentation live here.
How to type ⏶
| Windows | Type 23F6 then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “black medium up-pointing triangle” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 23f6, press Enter |
| HTML | ⏶ |
About Unicode’s Other symbol category
Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type the ⏶ black medium up-pointing triangle symbol?
- On Windows, type 23F6 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 23f6. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for ⏶?
- Black Medium Up-Pointing Triangle is U+23F6. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- What kind of character is ⏶?
- Black Medium Up-Pointing Triangle is filed under Other symbol in the Miscellaneous Technical block, and was introduced in Unicode 7.0. Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.