▽
White Down Triangle
- Unicode
- U+25BD
- Category
- Geometric
- HTML Entity
- ▽
- CSS
- \25BD
The White Down-Pointing Triangle (▽) is a geometric character representing a hollow, downward-pointing triangle. It frequently appears in user interfaces to indicate a dropdown menu, or in social media posts to visually direct readers toward a link or image below. In mathematics and physics, it occasionally serves as an outlined variant of the nabla symbol (∇) to represent the del operator.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9661 or Win+. then search "triangle"
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "white down-pointing triangle"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 25BD
- HTML
- ▽ or ▽
In Programming
In frontend web development and UI design, this symbol is frequently used as a lightweight, text-based icon to represent expandable accordion menus, dropdown lists, or downward state changes.
Tags
del operator
downward pointing triangle
dropdown indicator
expand arrow
geometric
gradient symbol
hollow down triangle
inverted
math symbol
nabla
open down triangle
outline down triangle
shape
triangle outline